额 我觉得有点重口 看到的时候心沉了一下= = 慎入
My wife Iris and I were at Mwamba Bush Camp with
Kennedy as our guide. We heard a lot of hyena calls the night before and
during tea the following morning with Kennedy we heard more hyena calls
on the other side of the Mwamba river bed. We decided we should go and
investigate further. We came across somewhere between 12 and 15 hyenas
squabbling over what we initially thought was the carcass of an impala
or puku however when one of the hyenas tried to run off with the remains
we realised to our horror that it was in fact a lion. We assumed it had
to be one of the group of 7 we had seen at the Mwamba waterhole the
previous afternoon. What we didn’t realise was that the other brother
and sisters were still close by and they made repeated attempts to chase
away the hyenas, with somewhat limited success.
Eventually one of the lions managed to retrieve the
carcass but to our surprise then started to nibble away at these
remains. Not something any of us expected, certainly not Kennedy, who
commented that he had never seen a lion eating another lion. Eventually
the lions lost interest and slowly moved away up the river bed leaving
one of the hyenas to carry what was left of the male lion into the bush.
We discussed with Kennedy how the lion could have been
taken down by the hyenas and the only possibility may be that it was
injured during the night, possibly by a buffalo, or a fight between male
lions, and consequently got separated from the rest of the group.
While this was a horrific site it just emphasises the cruel side of nature and survival of the fittest.
Certainly a sight we will never forget!!”