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mars 18
2012
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DO LIONS EAT GRASS?Posted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Mar 18, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 18.03.2012
Yes they do! A lions main diet is flesh. After making a kill lions tend to start eating the internal organs of the animal which may be worm infected. Due to this it is common to find lions eating grass which may help remove the worms and fur. They select broad grass blades and later regurgitates all the grass it ate hoping all the worms and fur will have been removed.
| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth | Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand |
Alex |
Martin |
Total |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 14 |
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20 |
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38 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 23 |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 6 |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 136 |
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10 |
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4 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 146 |
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15 |
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80 |
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| Bushbuck | 5 |
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| Cape Buffalo | 18 |
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100 |
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300 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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1 |
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| Cheetah |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 6 |
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25 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck |
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| Dwarf Mongoose | 32 |
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| Eland | 14 |
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2 |
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16 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 6 |
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30 |
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| Hippopotamus |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 870 |
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400 |
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300 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 26 |
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6 |
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2 |
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| Klipspringer |
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| Large-spotted Genet |
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| Leopard |
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1 |
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1 |
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| Lesser Bushbaby |
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| Lesser Kudu |
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| Lion | 2 |
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1 |
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1 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 10 |
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11 |
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| Olive Baboon | 42 |
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| Oribi |
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| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie |
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| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 2 |
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2 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 2 |
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1 |
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| Squirrel |
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| Steenbok |
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| Striped Hyena |
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| Striped Pole Cat/Zorilla |
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| Thick-tailed Bushbaby |
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| Thompson’s Gazelle | 56 |
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60 |
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100 |
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| Topi | 26 |
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40 |
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39 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 14 |
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16 |
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16 |
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| Water Mongoose |
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| White-tailed Mongoose |
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| Wild Dog |
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NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers
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