ELEPHANTS VS. LIONS

Just before we went out on an afternoon drive, I told the guests that one of the pride had been spotted this morning. I asked them if they'd like to go and find this pride of lions. Of coarse they said yes.

On the way up to where the lions were, we found a male white rhino and stopped for a quick look. The lions were a short distance away, so we left him. We eventually got to where the lions were that morning, but they had moved.

Martin, my partner in crime, said that he'd seen some tracks. We went back to where he saw them and drove around to see if they came out of where they went in. It didn't look like they came out of the bush, so Martin said that we should go to where he saw the last tracks and he'd walk on foot to see if he could find them.

While Martin was on foot, I drove around the same area. Martin called me on the radio and said that he had heard some elephants which weren't happy and he suggested that we go and see what those elephants were trumpeting at.

On approaching, we saw the elephants and then the lions being chased away from the kill that they had. The elephants came out of the river and stumbled across the lions eating. They didn't like them and started trumpeting and charging at them.

The lions didn't move too far away from the kill and elephants. Eventually the elephants moved away a little and the lions got up and moved very slowly back to the kill. There wasn't much of the kill left, so they tried to finish off what there was. The elephants weren't finished with the lions and chased them again, but this time the lions carried on moving away because the kill was finished and the elephants were annoying them.

It was amazing to see the interaction between elephants and lions, because the lions always have a terrified look on their faces.

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Parsons, Date: 26 August 2010