The internet is a truly fascinating place.
A year or so ago I did a post called Brutal or Amazing. You Decide. You can read the original post here but the short version is this. We found a lioness who just killed a hartebeest and proceeded to watch as she showed some very ‘interesting’ behavior as she found a foetus inside the dead antelope. No doubt it was an amazing sighting but the comments that was posted on my old blog ranged from philosophical to ridiculous but it sure caused reaction. I just thought it was a great sighting.
A few months ago someone must have found this post and spread a rumor that the lioness in the original Brutal or Amazing post died. The reason, apparently, was from sadness and despair. The idea of this post was not to get involved in an anthropomorphic discussion but rather to confirm that she is not dead. Not from sadness. Not from despair. She is not dead.
This morning I received an email from Ahmad Azini from Iran saying that he received the images and story in an email, again, and wanted to find out what happened to the brutal lioness and do a blog, in his own language, to clear up any contradicting stories.
So, to clear things up here are the posts that have mentioned this lioness since the original post.
- Original post – Brutal or Amazing. You Decide.
- Follow up post – The Brutal Lioness is not Dead!
- More proof – Misty Lions (she appears in this one)
Other than the images in the above posts, Grant Marcus captured the following image a week ago.
The image shows the ‘brutal’ lioness on the left with two of her five new youngsters and her sister. Obviously doing quite well and… not dead! So the bottom line is this. The Tshabalala lioness from the original Brutal or Amazing post is doing very well and is not dead. And don’t believe everything you read in emails! ;)
The series of images and accompanying story from the original post has appeared in a number of UK magazines and newspapers but if you have received any other versions of this story via email I would love to hear from you.
On a different note. I am very excited about some of the guests I have lined up. From tomorrow, each Thursday will feature a different guest blogger on Photo-Africa. Topics will include anything ranging from wildlife to photography and everything in between. HDR, how to photograph leopards and what makes a wildlife image stand out are but a few of the topics the guest bloggers will be writing about in the coming weeks. And, as always, some great wildlife images to go along with each post! If you would like to do a guest post on Photo-Africa, or have someone in mind that you would like to see do a guest post, please let me know!
Tomorrow Kerry de Bruyn will kick things off. Kerry is a photographer and writer who has written for a number of magazines and photographs wildlife, landscapes and lodges. For now you can check out her website by clicking here and then make sure to join her on Photo-Africa tomorrow.
Until later.
Gerry
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surprising for me is that in what university has lion passed her education course as an obstetrician!!! really I asked myself how lion could understand that she should cut the budy such that and with only a breaf cutting!!! isn’t this meaning that we have blinded very abilities in humans with our educational systems? No woman, though they themselves calving baby, can do what that lion did!! this shows that the primary humans were doing very tasks without education but today we can not (we have destroyed the sensational aspect of doing and learning in our life.) we accept someworks as ability if they are defined by a formal system, and because of this we repress any further ability as an abnormal or nonvaluable.
Lions go after the bellies soft and ripe skin first,seemingly it just happened that the Antelope was pregnant
and that’s the course of the nature for you,big deal.