Babysitting baby Lions

[sapaul]

Ok, so what has this got to do with biking


well, I had to cut a rally weekend short to babysit, rode out to the "Nappy Rally", 200 kms to get there. Marshalled for 10KMs, rode 200 back.

These babies need feeding every 2 hours.

13 days old and very rare.

[sapaul]

1 more

[sapaul]

and again

[Wrider]

Wow that's pretty cool! It's a good thing you don't have young children at home... "Can we keep 'em? Please? We'll feed them and take care of them and everything!!!" lol

[sapaul]

Yeah ...



until they get big enough to eat you all up my dear

[Wrider]

But it'd be one heck of a way to go out!
Can you imagine telling St. Peter how you died at the pearly gates? "Well, you see, we've had these lions for a few years......"

[blues2cruise]

What happened to Mom?

[Grey Thumper]

Ignoramus question: Uh, is taking care of baby lions pretty common in South Africa?

[sapaul]

White lions are a genetic mutation and they do not survive in the wild, the other lions kill them. These 2 were born in captivity and the mother rejected them from birth. As for being common to take care of them, maybe more common than you think. There is a trade in hunting lions here and there are plenty of " lion farms". There are 2 arguments here of course about sport hunting, but generally here we think that if it is done correctly, lion hunting contributes to the economy and saves those in the wild and game parks from being poached. Sadly even white lions are in demand for the hunters trophy wall. These 2 come from a game lodge where tourism is the major conributor, so hopefully they will survive as targets for the camera's and not the guns. One of the big problems with whit'e in the wild is that they cannot hunt as well as the other lion's. They are too easily seen. When you have ahit rate of 1 in 5 attempts, they become a liability to the pack.