Luminosity
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Continuing on Vood's gorgeous 'animals-adopting-other -animals' story....
Has anyone seen the BBC documentary ( i think it was originally a BBC doco ...I actually saw it on 60 Minutes tho ) .....about the lone lioness who adopted a baby oryx ( antelope) ?
She protected and took care of it for weeks before a male lion took it. The lion had been stalking them for a few days and when Kamuniak ( the lioness ) turned her back to drink , the lion saw his chance to grab the oryx. Up until that point , she was slowly starving as she refused to leave the oryx to go hunt for food.The oryx was starving as well as he wasnt weaned & had only fed off his mother once after his 'kidnapping'.
They filmed everything , got it all on camera and it was heartbreaking to watch. When the male lion mauled & ate the oryx , Kamuniak could only watch from a distance , unable to save her 'baby'.
She went into mouning for a while , then went on to adopt more baby oryx'....
I feel so sad for her....
I LOVE this lioness!
http://www.magicalkenya.com/default.nsf/0/A4FBEE7046ED7CAD43256C4F002BE2E4?opendocument&l=1
I originally posted this in the ridgeback and fawn thread but I didnt wanna hijack Voods thread so I created another for this lol...... :sillysmi:
Has anyone seen the BBC documentary ( i think it was originally a BBC doco ...I actually saw it on 60 Minutes tho ) .....about the lone lioness who adopted a baby oryx ( antelope) ?
She protected and took care of it for weeks before a male lion took it. The lion had been stalking them for a few days and when Kamuniak ( the lioness ) turned her back to drink , the lion saw his chance to grab the oryx. Up until that point , she was slowly starving as she refused to leave the oryx to go hunt for food.The oryx was starving as well as he wasnt weaned & had only fed off his mother once after his 'kidnapping'.
They filmed everything , got it all on camera and it was heartbreaking to watch. When the male lion mauled & ate the oryx , Kamuniak could only watch from a distance , unable to save her 'baby'.
She went into mouning for a while , then went on to adopt more baby oryx'....
I feel so sad for her....
I LOVE this lioness!
http://www.magicalkenya.com/default.nsf/0/A4FBEE7046ED7CAD43256C4F002BE2E4?opendocument&l=1
I originally posted this in the ridgeback and fawn thread but I didnt wanna hijack Voods thread so I created another for this lol...... :sillysmi: