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I read the lioness was out for 'walk' with her owner when she ran off after an animal and then attacked a woman taking pictures. a woman is dead. a lioness may be euthanized only for doing what lions do naturally. this is a tragedy and, from the story below, it appears the owner of the lioness may be the cause of all this misery.
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.
It wasn't a fluke. it was an inevitability.
Every apex predator has trigger instincts that cannot ever be eliminated by forced domesticity and human familiarity.
Humans cannot read any animal as well as the animal can read the human, especially when it comes to the predators.
Consider the common house cat. How many times as loving kitty suddenly bit a finger and drew blood, and then rubbed up against its owner and purred? Why did you just bite me, kitty?
The only difference is the size and lethality. The lion is just like the house cat. They all eat the ones they love. Love is part of the cat's predatory instinct. Lions purr when they gut their kill.
I would have preferred to read more about the victim than the model, though.
The were one and the same. The lady wasn't a professional model, but the photographer thought she was pretty enough to use for the ad work.
I doubt she suffered for very long or very much. Lions go for the throat and neck,either choking the prey or breaking its neck, and a human is a very easy kill compared to a wildebeest.
She was probably dead before she hit the ground. The aftermath was probably very grisly, but by then she was gone.
Every apex predator has trigger instincts that cannot ever be eliminated by forced domesticity and human familiarity.
Humans cannot read any animal as well as the animal can read the human, especially when it comes to the predators.
Consider the common house cat. How many times as loving kitty suddenly bit a finger and drew blood, and then rubbed up against its owner and purred? Why did you just bite me, kitty?
The only difference is the size and lethality. The lion is just like the house cat. They all eat the ones they love. Love is part of the cat's predatory instinct. Lions purr when they gut their kill.
It would be an inevitability if the odds were high that this would happen because of the many close interactions between lions and visitors. But the lions don't have close interactions with the visitors. Lions are in fenced enclosures, visitors can go on a safari truck, and lions are allowed to freely roam the part of the sanctuary he takes them to for their nature walks. On a 3,000 + acre sanctuary, that space is not right next to the camp where visitors are allowed.
It's being reported that the young woman and her companion were in a part of the sanctuary not accessible to the general public. They shouldn't have been there. So it really wasn't inevitable.
If he's attacked and you say it was inevitable - I would agree. It was a fluke that these two people were in an area they didn't belong and that a wild animal trying to flee from the lion ran straight to where they were.
The were one and the same. The lady wasn't a professional model, but the photographer thought she was pretty enough to use for the ad work.
I doubt she suffered for very long or very much. Lions go for the throat and neck,either choking the prey or breaking its neck, and a human is a very easy kill compared to a wildebeest.
She was probably dead before she hit the ground. The aftermath was probably very grisly, but by then she was gone.
Omigosh.
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