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Yame & George on an adventure

5/27/2015

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We thank Lozanne for sharing Yame & George's adventures with us again his month.
We love to get these updates of the cubs and what they are up to.  
Bev

So that time of the year is arriving where the frost greets George and Yame in the morning and the chills chase them to bed earlier in the evenings.
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But with it comes the season every farmer dreads, the fire season. Perfect combination of dry grass and days of wind that with the slightest of spark or heat can cause a fire that will destroy anything in its path. 

Unfortunately in the middle of the month on Welgedacht Private Game Reserve the combination came together and a bush fire got ignited. The fire went through George and Yame’s enclosure but Jade managed to put them safely in the night pen before the fire could reach their enclosure. We stayed with them to keep them calm while the fire was being controlled.

Thankfully with the hard work and efforts of the team and extra helping hands from neighbouring farms we managed to stop the fire.

So please be more careful and aware to not litter in any area with fire hazard materials.
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George and Yame got to play pretend while helping researchers better understand the hunting behaviour of lions.  Dr. Craig Packer and Natalia Borrego are interested in how lions work together to take down prey.  To study hunting behaviour, they set up fake prey species and record lions’ reactions.  This gives George and Yame a chance to behave like wild lions and practice their hunting skills, while also providing valuable scientific information to researchers.  
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Natalia and Craig set a fake warthog out in the bush, along the path that George and Yame walk.  Although the cubs have no previous experience hunting, they set straight to the warthog and behaved exactly as one would expect wild lions to behave.  As soon as they came upon the warthog, they stopped and went into stalking behaviour, quickening their pace as they got closer and closer. Yame arrived first and pounced, but he quickly realized that the warthog was an imposter.  The cubs then enjoyed a few minutes proudly investigating their prize.
Cheers for now,

Lozanne van Sittert
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1 Comment
Lisa Robichaud
8/24/2015 02:39:32 am

People who hunt animals for their heads or hides are mentally unstable. They are at best complete narcissistic a$$holes. I hope they ALL die horrible deaths when their time comes. No dying in their sleep, something slow and painful is what they all deserve. I'm so sick of these psychos killing beautiful animals and tearing their families apart...because guess what???? Animals live in families too and feel loss and sadness and fear and pain. So stop this "sport" for psychopathic narcissists.

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