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Awwwwwww. Safari Guide (for the photo tourists) gets killed by lion in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A lion charged and killed a safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in the same national park in Zimbabwe that was the home of Cecil the lion who was killed by a bow hunter in July.
Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said Tuesday that Quinn Swales was in Hwange National Park when he spotted six lions on Monday.
"One of the lions had cubs and they became hostile. Mr. Swales at first manage to scare the lions away but then the male lion later made a U-turn and attacked him," Charamba told The Associated Press. None of the tourists was harmed, she said.
Swales was leading six tourists on a walking safari when he spotted fresh lion spoor and decided to track a pride of lions consisting of two females, two cubs and two males, according to the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.
The collared lion, named Nxaha, attacked Swales, the parks authority said.
Cecil's killing in July by American dentist James Walter Palmer just outside the park sparked outrage in the United States. The collared lions are being monitored for an Oxford University study.
Camp Hwange, the safari company that employed Swales, said the 40-year-old guide succumbed to the injuries on the same day he was attacked.
"He was tracking lions when a male lion unexpectedly charged," said Camp Hwange in the statement issued Monday, adding that Swales was leading a photographic walking safari when he was attacked.
Camp Hwange's Facebook page says it offers game drives and game walks where "game likely to be encountered include all of the cat family, wild dog, elephants and buffalo in huge numbers."
The parks authority said a man who sells curios to tourists was killed by an elephant in the resort town of Victoria Falls, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Hwange, also on Monday.

Who'd a thought that walking up on a pride of lions, with cubs, would have brought on a protective behavior?
One has to wonder how many of those tourists will sign up for another "walking tour"...

Stupid.

Frikin Lion.

Black lives matter,,, don'tcha know?

Outlaw lions!!!

How fricken stupid can a person be for crying out loud?

Roy it was collard must have been a Pet Lion

norm

Now they will want to go and kill the lion, for doing what lions do!

The lions are obviously extracting revenge for Cecil. Darwin award winner for sure. I wonder if they are going to put the lion down now that he has figured out what easy prey picture safari guides are?

Better if it had been a granola crunchin' tourist.

But...but...but...that kitty was so cute

They should'a put a collar on that lion so it would behave...

Locals will tell you it's Cecil's revenge! Cecil called his couz from the Happy Hunting Grounds and ordered a hit on Mankind.

They did.

I would be very surprised if this is an evening ABC news story. Walking guide + protective pride of lions in their natural environment = dead stupid guide. News flash...bet the photo tour people had some lumpy and wet shorts after this walking tour. MTG

But, but, but, the people had no bad intentions towards the lions! They just wanted to see them! I can't believe this could happen! This has never happened in the nature TV shows or on Disney! (inert sarcasm emoticon here)

Prayers for the guide's family.

Ed

Nice pack of pricks you lot are, a man is dead...from his own stupidity yes, but still dead.

It is not a reason for mirth.



Now if it had been Mugabe...

I feel bad for the guide and his family - one story read that he was armed, and it was his job to protect the tourists on a walking tour. There's been a couple of different versions of the story. Ivan Carter apparently knew him, and described him as very professional.

Big cats have been eating people for a long time:

From Wikipedia:

"...In 1970, South African paleontologist C. K. Brain showed that a juvenile Paranthropus robustus individual, SK 54, had been killed by a leopard at Swartkrans in Gauteng, South Africa approximately 1.8 million years ago.[16][17] The SK 54 cranium bears two holes in the back of the skull—holes that perfectly match the width and spacing of lower leopard canine teeth..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_attack

That was a leopard 2MM years ago, but lions are obviously known to eat people, too, the Tsavo lions being a prime example.

I admire the heck out of big cats, and have been close to a couple of captive ones. Possibly close to a wild mountain lion at one point, too. When I see the video of old Cecil walking past open safari cars, I wondered how long before one of them grabbed a tourist.

The way it was, had to have been, for humans to survive around lions at all. Humans were dangerous too, and killing them brought on fatal consequences...



These guys have likely speared a lion of two in their day

(but near as I can tell they did it in groups, not like in the cheesy one-on-one photoshop on the video intro)

Birdwatcher

Mike,

In 1986, while on the North Slope, I met the last Eskimo to have killed an adult Polar Bear with a spear. He did it the traditional way, alone on the ice, pretending to be a seal to decoy the bear close enough to kill it.

Ed

Funny how lions have 2 distinct personalities. During daylight hours, they lounge around and nap and can be scared off or away. About an hour before sundown, they get up, get angry, and get to work.