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Jan 26
2012
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When too much meat is dangerous!Posted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Jan 26, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 26.01.2012
A pride of 12 lions had killed 2 adult zebras and each one of them had their share. We were fascinated by a lioness with her three cubs who engorged themselves so much that they spent hours lying in the hot sun, panting endlessly, probably unable to move due to too much meat or was left behind by the rest of the pride to guard the kill from scavengers.
A lioness needs to eat about 5kg (11 pounds) while a male needs about 7kg (15.5 pounds) of meat a day. However, lions tend to overeat gorging up to 30kg in one sitting. If unable to eat everything, it rests for a few hours before consuming more.
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| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth | Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand | Philip |
Alex |
Martin |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant |
60 |
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150 |
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120 | ||||
| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose |
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| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest |
20 |
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16 | |||||
| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra |
40 |
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20 |
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26 | ||||
| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo |
500 |
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1200 |
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800 | ||||
| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest |
12 |
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7 |
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36 | ||||
| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck |
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| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland |
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| Grant’s Gazelle |
5 |
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110 | |||||
| Hippopotamus |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala |
180 |
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80 |
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130 | ||||
| Kirk’s Dik Dik |
6 |
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3 |
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2 | ||||
| Klipspringer |
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| Large-spotted Genet |
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| Leopard |
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| Lesser Bushbaby |
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| Lesser Kudu |
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| Lion |
9 |
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30 |
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30 | ||||
| Maasai Giraffe |
5 |
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5 |
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16 | ||||
| Olive Baboon |
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1 |
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40 | ||||
| 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 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena |
2 |
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2 |
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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 |
80 |
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45 |
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300 | ||||
| Topi |
40 |
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18 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog |
10 |
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32 |
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40 | ||||
| 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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