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A young woman was mauled to death at a game reserve run by South Africa’s self-styled “lion whisperer” weeks after supermodel Cara Delevingne posed for a photo-shoot.
The 22-year-old victim was pounced on by a lioness at the Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary, near Johannesburg, as she walked back to her car with a friend.
Like the OP said, it was an unfortunate accident. Kevin Richardson does not allow people to walk among lions or to drive their cars through the sanctuary. Of all the years Richardson has been saving animals from canned hunting, this is the first incident of it's kind. It was a fluke.
The lions were hunting antelope and two invited people were walking in the reserve taking pictures. That doesn't sound very responsible. People are easier to catch than antelope. It's just luck that it hasn't happened before.
The lions were hunting antelope and two invited people were walking in the reserve taking pictures. That doesn't sound very responsible. People are easier to catch than antelope. It's just luck that it hasn't happened before.
The articles I've read stated they were within the reserve's boundaries, in an area that is not accessible to the general public. It sounds like they went somewhere they shouldn't have been.
There is a long list of dead tourists that made poor decisions around wild animals in Africa (and in the US for that matter).
I feel sorry for the girls family and wish them peace.
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