News from Marloth Park and beyond - Page 4

If you are on a long family holiday it might just happen that some adults and many children would prefer to do something different. The moment to realize that you've reached that point is that in spite of a few elephants surrounding your vehicle it seems impossible to keep the peace between your offspring.

Regular visitors to national parks and wilderness areas in Africa often come across lions and I think that few of them ever give it a thought that there was a time, not too long ago that people and lions shared common ground and prey. To me the most disturbing thought about that time is that the rifles that the old folks used were a far cry from today's automatic and semi automatic "ready for combat" weapons. The time that it take a lion to charge over a distance of a hundred meters would have been too short to reload. "They say that the only rule is: "Whatever you do... don't run!" Such bravery seems almost impossible. To show you that it is indeed possible, watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkJ2-Mbd-Vc

Here is more. Some might call it stupidity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vZye09ckAo&feature=related