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This may not be to some peoples liking as the video shows lions feasting on the carcass of an Elephant.
[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1MqaJ-alI]Warning! Lions feasting on an Elephant[/URL]
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Lions at the kill (Warning)
26 Jun 10
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Posts: 690
26 Jun 10
I'm no expert but from experience & information from Benson, the lions will single out a herd member then wear it down. They then attempt to disable the poor terrified creature by puncturing the spinal chord thus disabling the rear legs.
A lot more elephants fall prey to lions than we are led to believe especially in the dry seasons of Botswana & Zimbabwe when the elephants suffer their hardest times & have to travel great distances for food & water!
Many babies get singled out at these stressful times.
Well as I look back through my recordings I keep finding more & more highlights, Elephants swimming the Linyanti river to reach the cool reed beds, a quiet evening, perfect light sat with a grazing herd & a youngster practising to use it's trunk. Leopard & it's kill shadowed by it's young adult cub & a poorly Hyena.
This next one I think you'll like Jan then I'll give Africa a break and edit some of my India tapes.
Also I'm running out of suitable non copyright music! 
26 Jun 10
If indeed the young elephant was killed by the lions, the prides you saw must be much larger than those I am used to seeing in Tsavo which is usually 5 - 7 adults.
I did see one TV program (not sure of which country) in which a pride of 13 lions killed a teen-aged elephant. The poor thing didn't stand a chance with that many lions attacking all at once. That is probably why when the young bulls are chased away from their families, they tend to join a group of bulls and follow them around for protection.
The lionesses I've seen in both Ambo and Tsavo are feared by the lions, and I've often seeing females chasing lions away from their babies and families.
