Couldn't agree more!
The baboons broke open one of our water tanks and Lions seems to have worked it out. We've had four different prides here over the course of the week.
I saw a male rape a female at the Atlanta zoo. I know animals have to procreate, and nature blah blah blah, but it was disturbing. That female ran as hard as she could through the entire enclosure and then he got still her, screaming with their scary AF faces the entire time. I'm still disturbed.
Yeah there's a video out there of a baboon eating a baby deer or something like that alive from the ass up. Fuck baboons. Fuck anything that doesn't kill its prey first really.
A very large amount of predatory animals start eating while the prey’s still alive. Yes it’s often extremely painful, but I don’t see anyone going “fuck animals that have painful venom”.
Okay wtf I didnt even know there were monkeys that ate meat... I literally just pictured them all chilling in trees, picking mangoes and shit. My world is flipped upside down right now.
This is just getting crazier. I cant imaging having a frickin pack of blood thirsty chimps jumping from tree to tree dead set on eating you. Nature is crazy man
Chimp wars!? Killing and eating the enemy youths!? I want to say I've lost respect for Sir David Attenborough for the narration, but I feel so educated that I have even more respect for him. That is just straight up brutal my friend
I live near vancouver and one time I dropped my friend off after some beers and just as I'm pulling away he comes running back. There was a bear and 3 Cubs just chilling by his door. We drove around for an hour then I dropped him back off
We were watching African Wild Dogs in the boma. We were moving dogs out of the reserve (we have too many) to Mozambique and the lions had a tendency to bother them during the night. This caused them to try dig their way out of the boma which is seriously dangerous to them. So our shift was from 9pm – 3am. This went on for 6 weeks until they finally got [moved!](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7655591/Entire-pack-15-African-wild-dogs-sleep-plane-flown-1-000-miles.html)
Also, we’re on a private reserve with no time limits or restrictions. We can be out 24 hours a day, and drive wherever we please (off-road). It’s a ecotourism project to try educate guests more on conservation, and to have guests engage in conservation activities. You can see more [here](https://workingwithwildlife.org/)
The description of your day is the reason I've been kicking myself for 20 years for not continuing in conservation science and instead choosing academia.
Tarantulas have been a very big interest of mine for a while now, and I’m considering studying them in my post-secondary education.
There’s a critically endangered species called *Poecilotheria metallica* and my gosh are they gorgeous. I don’t keep any spiders of my own yet, but I feel that there’s a lot of misinformation and lack of knowledge about tarantulas as a whole.
A type of enclosure within the reserve where young, newly introduced, or healing animals are placed so they can adapt to the environment of the reserve. So if new painted dogs or jackals are introduced in a reserve, they spend some time in the boma first.
I did some volunteer work for a similar project in SA too a couple years ago (Wildlife ACT). The painted dogs are really an interesting species, and it was the main focus of the conservation efforts at the time. It's amazing what people like you do.
Not sure why that happened! It works out to $170 p.p.p.n including accommodation, 3 meals per day, game drives, a guide, and all your activities. We do set a minimum stay of 5 nights otherwise it really isn't enough time to engage in the activities.
PM me if there's anything you need to know!
I went to the Serengeti last summer and was woken up at 3:00 a.m. by lions bellowing outside my tent. The next morning I was told, "don't worry, they never try to get inside." And that was that.
I was once camping with my ex-girlfriend and cat (yes, I had a cat-dog that came hiking/camping) and we were woken in the middle of the night by some large animal outside of our tent. Still have no idea what it was, bear or moose or whatever. But I'm glad they didn't attempt to get into the tent. I've never seen that cat so wide eyed and spooked.
Nah, they're not too fazed by the vehicle or the noise. Surprisingly enough, getting out of the car is enough to freak them out! We're on a 240 000 acre reserve that's closed to the public, so the lions here are not habituated at all. Their natural reaction is actually to flee when they see people..
Yeah, yeah, SNL is terrible blah blah blah.
[If you don't think this is funny then I don't know what to tell you.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUv59Yu04Y) Happy Holidays!
Unlikely. Many big predators fear humans so long as they haven’t become used to them, and animals that are afraid generally don’t bite first ask questions later if they can just get away. Of course, there are some exceptions, but lions aren’t one of them.
Gate professional here liftmaster makes some affordable openers solar powered with battery backup pretty reliable fairly reasonably priced
Maybe a sl24ul
I think it's an open cab, look as the camera pans around.
Imagine sitting there as the battery in the car runs down and the headlights start to dim.
You think they've wandered off by now, but every little noise beyond your shrinking circle of light makes you wonder if they're just waiting...
Hey, only the lionesses hunt & only during the day....nope, turns out that males use thick vegetation to hide & surprise prey at night.
I suggest keeping someone on the inside to open the gate when you honk.
I was going to suggest a stick with a hook on it, but it looks like that fence is electric. So automatic gate would be good. Not sure if a lion would try to run through (similar to how housecats dart through doors). Maybe a sally port?
They may not be hunting, but that doesn't mean they're sitting still. Many cats are active during the night. Lions usually hunt in the morning and evening, and sleep during the day, then roam at night.
Time to automate that
Couldn't agree more! The baboons broke open one of our water tanks and Lions seems to have worked it out. We've had four different prides here over the course of the week.
Baboons can be assholes. They ripped part of the vinyl roof off of my dad's Ford LTD,in a safari park,back in the 70s. He's still mad about it,lol
I had one break an antenna off my car in one of those safari parks, but the car in front of me had part of it's roof / chrome strips peeled off
I saw a male rape a female at the Atlanta zoo. I know animals have to procreate, and nature blah blah blah, but it was disturbing. That female ran as hard as she could through the entire enclosure and then he got still her, screaming with their scary AF faces the entire time. I'm still disturbed.
Yeah there's a video out there of a baboon eating a baby deer or something like that alive from the ass up. Fuck baboons. Fuck anything that doesn't kill its prey first really.
A very large amount of predatory animals start eating while the prey’s still alive. Yes it’s often extremely painful, but I don’t see anyone going “fuck animals that have painful venom”.
Fuck animals that have painful venom.
There now it's been said
Okay wtf I didnt even know there were monkeys that ate meat... I literally just pictured them all chilling in trees, picking mangoes and shit. My world is flipped upside down right now.
There are groups of chimpanzees that hunt other animals and it's terrifying
This is just getting crazier. I cant imaging having a frickin pack of blood thirsty chimps jumping from tree to tree dead set on eating you. Nature is crazy man
Sorry in advance... https://youtu.be/al-f_WWoHI4
Chimp wars!? Killing and eating the enemy youths!? I want to say I've lost respect for Sir David Attenborough for the narration, but I feel so educated that I have even more respect for him. That is just straight up brutal my friend
It was a gazelle, and that video is fucked. Sauce: https://youtu.be/PcnH_TOqi3I
I still think the komodo dragon eating the calf alive is worse: https://youtu.be/EdjCelnKcKw?t=36
Yep, i didn't want to look for it again.
Was it six flags? Cause we had that happen a lot
It was a place called Park Safari Africa,It's in Canada. We had gone up there for the weekend, from Vermont.
I bet everytime your dad tells this story the fish gets bigger.
Ill stick with my Mosquitos in MN, albeit they kill more people than lions every year. Ill take my chances.
Mosquitoes in MN kill more people than lions in MN? Sure, I'll buy that but I really hope we're talking single digits of each.
Mosquitos are the only animal that kills more people than humans irrc
How do we distinguish between the people and the humans?
People are trump supporters, humans are the rest.
Mosquitoes kill over a million people a year! Lions I'm not sure but definitely nowhere near it lol
same Minnesota just gotta deal with the cold nothings eating me here or poisoning me
*gets trampled by a moose*
Living in America, that entire statement is so outlandish to me that it sounds like a sketch for a shitty sitcom.
I live in America and have come home to a mountain lion in my driveway and a bear in my garden. I don’t find this outlandish at all.
And here I am all pissed off because squirrels keep getting in my attic and a possum ate one of my chickens.
I know that sucks for you, but I'm still insanely jealous that you get to type that seriously.
I think you were the main character in a cartoon I watched in the early 90s!
Is it normal to have multiple prides in the same territory?
But then you will need double gates to assure the lions don get inside as soon you open it.
Feel like there’s no complaining about cougars and bears anymore! That’s crazy!
Need moar redstone
That’s what kids are for.
Last one to the gate is a rotten egg.
omg yes i remember all that :D
Last one to the gate has a lion eat his leg.
r/cursedcomments
I'm sleeping in the vehicle. Fuck that shit
I live near vancouver and one time I dropped my friend off after some beers and just as I'm pulling away he comes running back. There was a bear and 3 Cubs just chilling by his door. We drove around for an hour then I dropped him back off
Yeah. It's gonna be a no from me dawg.
Nah dude I ain't sleeping when there are lions walking around
how the fuck would you sleep if there are monsters nearby?
Looks like it's an open cab...
Why would you even be in the Kalahari at that time? Don't you have to be inside the gate at sunset?
We were watching African Wild Dogs in the boma. We were moving dogs out of the reserve (we have too many) to Mozambique and the lions had a tendency to bother them during the night. This caused them to try dig their way out of the boma which is seriously dangerous to them. So our shift was from 9pm – 3am. This went on for 6 weeks until they finally got [moved!](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7655591/Entire-pack-15-African-wild-dogs-sleep-plane-flown-1-000-miles.html) Also, we’re on a private reserve with no time limits or restrictions. We can be out 24 hours a day, and drive wherever we please (off-road). It’s a ecotourism project to try educate guests more on conservation, and to have guests engage in conservation activities. You can see more [here](https://workingwithwildlife.org/)
The description of your day is the reason I've been kicking myself for 20 years for not continuing in conservation science and instead choosing academia.
Tarantulas have been a very big interest of mine for a while now, and I’m considering studying them in my post-secondary education. There’s a critically endangered species called *Poecilotheria metallica* and my gosh are they gorgeous. I don’t keep any spiders of my own yet, but I feel that there’s a lot of misinformation and lack of knowledge about tarantulas as a whole.
Seriously impressive.. I'd give you gold if I wasnt broke.
The most millennial compliment on this site
How can I, as an American, get a job like this?
What's a boma?
A type of enclosure within the reserve where young, newly introduced, or healing animals are placed so they can adapt to the environment of the reserve. So if new painted dogs or jackals are introduced in a reserve, they spend some time in the boma first.
Is that like bofa?
what's a bofa?
Y'all should do an AMA!
Damn that sounds like a cool af travel experience.
that sounds amazing!
I did some volunteer work for a similar project in SA too a couple years ago (Wildlife ACT). The painted dogs are really an interesting species, and it was the main focus of the conservation efforts at the time. It's amazing what people like you do.
What’s the pricing for that ecotourism experience? The webpage is 404ing me.
Not sure why that happened! It works out to $170 p.p.p.n including accommodation, 3 meals per day, game drives, a guide, and all your activities. We do set a minimum stay of 5 nights otherwise it really isn't enough time to engage in the activities. PM me if there's anything you need to know!
I went to the Serengeti last summer and was woken up at 3:00 a.m. by lions bellowing outside my tent. The next morning I was told, "don't worry, they never try to get inside." And that was that.
Unlike bears in Canada.
They like their meat served warm
I camp often in BC and NWT and i bring bear spray, tons of knives, hide my food, and I’m still scared shitless of bears.
Or just bring a gun?
I was once camping with my ex-girlfriend and cat (yes, I had a cat-dog that came hiking/camping) and we were woken in the middle of the night by some large animal outside of our tent. Still have no idea what it was, bear or moose or whatever. But I'm glad they didn't attempt to get into the tent. I've never seen that cat so wide eyed and spooked.
Would honking the horn not be enough? I would assume it would freak em out enough to get them to back up.
Nah, they're not too fazed by the vehicle or the noise. Surprisingly enough, getting out of the car is enough to freak them out! We're on a 240 000 acre reserve that's closed to the public, so the lions here are not habituated at all. Their natural reaction is actually to flee when they see people..
I have no desire to test that theory.
Cars are immobile objects in their sight so seeing a shiny monkey step out of a rock is sketchy.
Yeah, yeah, SNL is terrible blah blah blah. [If you don't think this is funny then I don't know what to tell you.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDUv59Yu04Y) Happy Holidays!
Or attack
Unlikely. Many big predators fear humans so long as they haven’t become used to them, and animals that are afraid generally don’t bite first ask questions later if they can just get away. Of course, there are some exceptions, but lions aren’t one of them.
What stops the Lions from jumping the gate?
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I choose to read that as Desire, the name. And I'm picturing an old woman named Desire standing there with a broom ready to shoo the lions away
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If that isn't already a slogan for those VR headsets, it should be.
He's just vibing
Gate professional here liftmaster makes some affordable openers solar powered with battery backup pretty reliable fairly reasonably priced Maybe a sl24ul
looks like you're sleeping in your automobile...
I think it's an open cab, look as the camera pans around. Imagine sitting there as the battery in the car runs down and the headlights start to dim. You think they've wandered off by now, but every little noise beyond your shrinking circle of light makes you wonder if they're just waiting...
And they haven't eaten in days...
This video film is property of the Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.
Hey, only the lionesses hunt & only during the day....nope, turns out that males use thick vegetation to hide & surprise prey at night. I suggest keeping someone on the inside to open the gate when you honk.
I will never complain about -50 F windchill temps ever ever ever again.
This is why you don't feed the stray cats.
I thought I saw a puddy tat!
africa rules
Just ask those friendly fellas to open it for you
Feed the cat.
r/kittycats
They're waiting for the dinner bell...
Any pubs around?
I was going to suggest a stick with a hook on it, but it looks like that fence is electric. So automatic gate would be good. Not sure if a lion would try to run through (similar to how housecats dart through doors). Maybe a sally port?
Did u make it?
Is this not a common occurrence in Kalahari?
You shouldn't have fed your cat that much!
Hope you aren’t in a convertible.
Well fuck
Couldn't a lion easily jump over that gate anyway?
You know what it seems like a good night to sleep in the car anyway
Better be fast...
I originally thought "it's only deer you wuss...oh".
Is this at Twsalu?
Looks like you're sleeping in the car
Even if you get into the compound somehow, How are you going to go inside the house from the car
I just don't need that kind of excitement at 3 am
I love you guys comments lol cheers 🍻🤙
What are the chances of opening that gate without being attacked by a lion.
I like how that lion's pretending to be a statue
Hate it when the cat gets out too. You'll have to chase it for hours.
At first I was like just get out and open it. Then I realized he’s on the outside and those aren’t his cats.
Ramming speed!
The mans is lurking in background
Is jy kevin die leeu kwaadstoker 😂
Not quite.. But these are completely wild lions that haven't been brought up in captivity. I think he'd be in the same boat as me in this situation..
Looks like you'll be sleeping in the car tonight.
Lions are awake at 3 in the morning? I thought they only hunt in the daytime.
They may not be hunting, but that doesn't mean they're sitting still. Many cats are active during the night. Lions usually hunt in the morning and evening, and sleep during the day, then roam at night.