Blood and guts
This past week has been a concentrated mass of carnage to the highest degree. We released 17 zebra, 10 wildebeest and 50 impala into the Ngamo site last week and since then the lions have been on an extensive killing spree. They have already massacred 2 zebras, 2 wildebeest and 4 impalas within the space of 7 days! This is bearing in mind that they usually make one large kill every 4 days. These lions have gone from being pretty skinny to FAT in less than a week and it is amazing to see how different they look now – and in fact how much more energetic they are. I watched Nala and Narnia (aka the queens of brutality) spend all day yesterday trying to hunt down anything that moved within 200m of them. In fact, between the first and second session, they had managed to take down a pregnant impala that they were busy munching on next to a waterhole by the time we found them. We only knew it was pregnant because half way through devouring it, N...