Lions like sushi

DannyinJapan

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"Japanese woman dies after being attacked by lion in Zimbabwe
Monday, August 22, 2005 at 07:17 JST
JOHANNESBURG — A 50-year-old Japanese woman, traveling in Zimbabwe, was attacked by a lion in a safari park Wednesday and died in a hospital Friday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has been informed.

Saemi Ono, from Kumamoto Prefecture, was attacked when she was returning to a car after taking photos at a designated place within the park in a western suburb of Harare, the ministry said. There were around eight other tourists and guards but no one else was injured, it said."


Apparently that lion picked her out of a crowd of ten or twelve other people. Interesting, isnt it? Lions have this "weird side" some times.
 
If she were older, frailer, smaller than the others, she might have seemed like an easier victim.
 
You're probably right. It's just weird to me that a lion would go into a crowd of people and hit one of them. Of course, Im assuming she wasnt off by herself.
You have to wonder what those guards were doing...
 
It didn't seem that weird to me. I've never heard of a lion attacking 2 antelope at once, so I'd expect the same behavior if they were attacking people, right? Only one set of teeth. But I'm no lion expert.
 
But...she was in a designated area! Didn't the lion see the sign?

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I know what the guards were doing. The guards, living and working there, are familiar with lions. They were standing somewhere other than out in the open! :(

Getting back to what Eric said, if you watch a documentary on lions hunting, you'll see them stalking, then deciding on one specific victim, then attacking. If that victim escapes, they often miss out entirely, because they aren't ready to reprogram for a second target.

Nasty, of course they saw the signs. Don't you think they can read between the lions? They just aren't very good at taking orders. :)
 
Then the question is... why were they outside their cars? Usually not such a good idea with animals with thousands of years of predatory evolution...
 
Daga, you got that right ...

I was walking down the path to the old Central Park Zoo in NYC. The building on that end was the big cats' house, and a lioness was in the outside cage on the corner. There were a couple of little kids playing on the path in front of me, and the lioness was stalking them. if she hadn't been behind bars, those kids would have been lunch.

Never mind Africa. People in our own national parks get out of their cars to hand feed the bears. :rolleyes:
 
and, lions are pack hunters, not solitary like cheetahs or leopards, where there was one, there were many more not seen. probably

daddy lion said, "hey mildred, pop out & get us a snack, i'm feeling a bit empty. "

his wife said: " george, you lazy fart, i'm not carrying back a heavy one this time, if you want to stuff your face, you'll need to get off your butt and help. the rest of the girls are tied up feeding the kids, so don't expect them to help."

george replied "OK, OK, don't get your tail in a knot, all i want is a little snack, how about SUSHI?"
 
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