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Category: Amazing facts, Mara Triangle, Podcasts | Date: Mar 04 2008 | By: admin

Last week I spent three days in the Masai Mara and went on patrol with the rangers of the Mara Conservancy to catch 7 alleged hippo poachers that were believed to be in the area. While on patrol we had a few ‘adventures’ and dramatic though amusing incidents. Though I wasn’t there, the five poachers were finally caught two days later with a dead hippo which Kimojino reported here.

This podcast and these photos document an extraordinary and rare incident that I’ve never heard of before and nobody that I know has ever observed a warthog killing a full grown lion! Listen to this new post here

The incident took place during a break in the middle of the patrol – we broke off to investigate a report of an injured lioness and what we found was almost too amazing to be true.

A ten year old lioness, killed by a warthog. She looked pregnant. That’s the broken off warthog tooth. Can you see the tiny wound in her neck? Surgical! Only after we turned her over did we notice the pool of blood beneath her.

The brave Masai rangers couldn’t resist getting a few photos with the slain lioness

Here’s the proud lion slayer in a hole just a meter from the dead lioness. Impressive teeth no?

Being the coward I am I wouldn’t put my head in it’s hole (thank God!) but stuck my camera in and took into one but 2 photos with the flash. She or he didn’t budge a millimeter despite all the noise and flash… we were convinced she/he was dead. Can you see the missing tusk?

Here is the deadly tusk - source of much exclamation and awe.

Though I’m very sorry for the lioness I cant help wondering what the heck she was doing? Putting her head into a warthogs hole??? Everyone knows that the first law of African savanna bush, don’t ever EVER stand in front of a warthogs hole. Now you know why.

I hope you enjoy the podcast

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Category: Mara Triangle | Date: Mar 02 2008 | By: admin

On arrival in the Mara one often sees bones on the ground all over the place and sometimes they get collected and left at key spots. I love studying bones so took these photographs and wondered if you could identify them…

Easy? Try these then…..

Sorry about the missing teeth….

How many could you identify?

Our trip to Mara was punctuated with some really fun and interesting adventures. Tomorrow I will upload another podcast about an amazing incident that I and many others, still find hard to believe. It involves a fight between a lion and a warthog.

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