More poachers eaten (1 Viewer)

Lions have decideв that poachers are clumsy, slow and make a nice family picnic it seems.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44728507



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My only question here is why on earth did the authorities tranquillize lions to recover poachers' remains? We are continually told on zoo programmes that anaesthetics are inherently risky: they shouldn't be inflicted on healthy animals to recover bits of dead people intent on evildoing. Leave the lions alone, they seem to be an effective anti-poaching measure.

John

A group of lions overcoming three armed men without suffering any (known) losses of their own shows some impressive tactical acumen IMO. I'm OK with that as long as they don't decide to eat rangers or other law-abiding folk.

Farnboro John said:

My only question here is why on earth did the authorities tranquillize lions to recover poachers' remains? We are continually told on zoo programmes that anaesthetics are inherently risky: they shouldn't be inflicted on healthy animals to recover bits of dead people intent on evildoing. Leave the lions alone, they seem to be an effective anti-poaching measure.

John

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I was actually thinking we should reintroduce them to their former range. They seem to be more effective at pest control than crown prosecutors... :-O

Farnboro John said:

My only question here is why on earth did the authorities tranquillize lions to recover poachers' remains? We are continually told on zoo programmes that anaesthetics are inherently risky: they shouldn't be inflicted on healthy animals to recover bits of dead people intent on evildoing. Leave the lions alone, they seem to be an effective anti-poaching measure.

John

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They wanted to recover the remains to do detective work on who & how many they were, to find potential accomplices.

Think the problem with tranquilisers is that they take a while to work - not safe with an escaped zoo lion where it might kill more people before it goes to sleep. That wasn't an issue here.


Oh, and if you take away their prey before they've finished, they'll be hungry quicker, and go get some more poachers :-O