https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67023033

Interesting.

And rightly so
We are the top predator

Lions do not give a shit about us especially during the dark hours or on bait

Lion scare the chitt out of me.

Lions "snarling and growling" means the lions are not hunting.

Andrew, you have far more experience with them than I do, but I agree. I've never had a lion treat me with anything other than total disdain.

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Originally posted by Indy:
Lions "snarling and growling" means the lions are not hunting.

True, they are silent as the night when hunting but try approaching one of those "snarling and growling" on foot and see the reaction.

Fulvio,

True that. We were tracking a lion (not wounded) and it's amazing how they can hide. We came up at one point and everyone thought if they were a lion they'd be there. We glassed for 10 minutes and convinced ourselves he wasn't there. He was there. Anyway, we bumped him a couple of times and he voiced his displeasure with increasing emphasis each time.

He finally walked into a sea of grass and it would have been futile, most likely, or suicide if you actually found him, in there.

This is in Kruger, so its not hunting.

Its that its something they are not used to in that setting.

My experience is that animals are pretty tuned in, and get very nervous if there is something "different" regardless of what it is.

Note that in Tanzania, if you dress up as Masai, you can walk into rifle range of most of the plains animals (at least in some places)... They are habituated to them, and don't react.

Lions? In an active hunting area they do act a bit differently. I've always thought that they have some innate sense as when I have had a license they tend to be MUCH more flighty than if you don't. Not sure why. But when I have been hunting other things, they can be very blase about you.

Lions are one of those animals that I can't trust. I've seen them hide and move, and I have to respect them.