The Lion Roars 2

[Princesex Voskamp]

Oneday, a lion was very hungry. He was lying under a tree when all of a sudden he saw a porcupine coming out of a burrow. It was sunset, when the nocturnal animals begin to become active. When the lion saw the porcupine, he decided to catch it for a snack. But when the porcupine noticed the predator coming to attack, he quickly pulled his quills up. The lion tried to catch it by the head but each time he tried, the porcupine would turn its back on the lion, which made it difficult.

He sat back down and started to remove the quills. He managed to remove the ones around his mouth, but he was unable to remove the ones in his throat. Unable to remove the quills, he was unable to hunt. As the days drew on, he became weaker without food. His front paws were too big to remove the remaining quills, and no one would help him for fear of being gobbled up afterward.

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When a beautiful lioness comes to town with a visiting circus, the Happy Lion pays her a visit and it is love at first sight! The Happy Lion finds a way to release her and hide her in his enclosure. When she is discovered he won't let anyone separate them, and his friend Francois convinces the mayor to let the lioness stay.

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Felids in captivity are often inactive and elusive in zoos, leading to a frustrating visitor experience. Eight roars were recorded from an adult male lion and played back over speakers as auditory enrichment to benefit the lions while simultaneously enhancing the zoo visitor experience. In addition, ungulates in an adjacent exhibit were observed to ensure that the novel location and increased frequency of roars did not lead to a stress or fear response. The male lion in this study roared more in the playback phase than in the baseline phases while not increasing any behaviors that would indicate compromised welfare. In addition, zoo visitors remained at the lion exhibit longer during playback. The nearby ungulates never exhibited any reactions stronger than orienting to playbacks, identical to their reactions to live roars. Therefore, naturalistic playbacks of lion roars are a potential form of auditory enrichment that leads to more instances of live lion roars and enhances the visitor experience without increasing the stress levels of nearby ungulates or the lion themselves, who might interpret the roar as that of an intruder.

Roars are used to signal territoriality and to locate distant pride members. Both male and female lions demonstrate ownership of territories via roaring and are able to gauge the strength of opposition based on the number of roars heard from other groups. A number of studies have used playback experiments to assess the reaction of lions to the playback of roars from varying numbers of lions. Females are more likely to respond to roars of other groups if they outnumber the other group, whereas males tend to approach the roars of competing lions regardless of their number. Fights between females often result in severe injury or death, so it is critical for lionesses to gauge the risks before engaging. Fighting between males is also frequently deadly, but pride males appear to have nothing to lose by approaching intruders because their only chance of reproductive success is when they control a pride. Consequently, they seem willing to fight for that control regardless of the odds.

Lions roar almost exclusively at night. A recent study found that there is a peak of vocalizing near dawn, and that lions roar more when acoustic conditions are conducive to sound traveling far. Lions roar more when wind speed is low, when it is cooler, and when air humidity is higher. They avoid roaring beyond their home range boundary, and are more likely to roar repeatedly near rivers and water points. These fascinating insights help us better understand the complex social systems of lions.

The second lion seemed even larger than his brother, glowing orange in the sun and sashaying through the brush as if he owned the world. Brother 1 stopped roaring and looked over at his pal. They were like kittens preparing to pounce on each other in the grass.

I had traded my long telephoto lens for a shorter one, and was using up batteries and storage space as I continued to record the love-in. Three lions, rolling and playing together like giant tawny kittens in the icy morning light.

This was highlighted rather nicely by the Majingilane males one morning, when three of them had been found in a thicket near the Maxabene, and the fourth male was somewhere a few kilometres away, I think with the Tsalala pride if memory serves me correctly.

It always used to astound me how well the trackers at Londolozi were able to identify the different Majingilane males who were calling. I once lost a six-pack of beers to Oxide Ndlovu when he told me that it was definitely the Scar-nosed male roaring one morning. I figured he was pulling my leg and that he only had a 1-in-4 chance of being right (there were four lions in the coalition), but he got it spot on, and I was a six-pack down!

Thank you for a great blog, James! I am so happy for the research that is going on now.. Panthera with the DNA data bank being started and the information being gathered on all of our wonderful leopards.. I know there is another place doing leopard research also but not in the Sabi Sands.. Ingwe Leopard Project headquartered in the Thabo Tholo is doing some wonderful work also. I enjoy blogs of this nature, it is always a pleasure to learn as well as experience.

It was in Londolozi that we had one of our best experiences. it was nightfall and Sandros had us parked infront of two sleepy male lions. suddenly, one of them started roaring. then he got up, and walked, roaring all the way. and we followed until he came towards the vehicle, while roaring, went under us and then next to the vehicle. the vehicle rattled like crazy. wow. that was all we could say over again and again.wow. and i love how you talked about them being able to pinpoint each other so accurately. they are such a smart species.

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I can imagine that brining the many and varied experiences, research and personal contacts has made the creation of this book a labour of love for the author. But the effort made is timely. If we do not take the message seriously and engage with how on earth we live and accommodate magnificent, dangerous predators like lions, soon enough there will be none to speak of and this book will be just a compelling lesson in history.

I should credit "Danijel" from Belgrade, Serbia over on the Gearslutz Forum for the original post. We're missing the third picture, where the lion jumps down and has lunch "with" the Sound Man and Cameraman...

Which character do you think you would have reacted like if you were awakened in the night by Lucy? (Or if you don't think you would have acted like any of them how do you think you would have acted?)

At first only Lucy can see Aslan and then one by one the others are able to see him. In chapter 10, Lucy asks Aslan if the others will see him. He repies, "Certainly not at first ... Later on it depends." What do you think it depends on? How does being able to see Aslan work?

As they journey to meet Aslan, which characters do you feel most sympathy with?

Probably Peter. Of the four who were woken up suddenly, he's the only one who didn't snappishly make some snide comment to someone else, which makes it a little easier to sympathize with him. As for Lucy herself, she still has Aslan's strength flowing through her, which is more than can be said for the others.

Peter asks, "Why should Aslan be invisible to us?" What could you reply?

Well, why did they not all find the path to Narnia in the wardrobe at the same time previously? Why didn't Aslan just bring them directly to Caspian's camp instead of making them walk? Aslan isn't a tame lion; if he chooses to be invisible, he's going to be invisible.

Aslan roars. Which of the effects impresses or thrills you most?

The dryads and naiads awakening. It's the last piece of old Narnia that still hasn't been restored, until Aslan's roar. It's a reminder that Aslan's roar is more than just a way to terrify the enemy; it's also a wonderful, restorative thing.

Which character do you think you would have reacted like if you were awakened in the night by Lucy? (Or if you don't think you would have acted like any of them how do you think you would have acted?)

Oh, either Susan or Edmund, depending on whether or not I believed Lucy. I'm very irritable when woken up in the middle of the night, and this is assuming I've eaten well and haven't been marching the day before. I don't think the behavior of any of the children nor Trumpkin is really all that surprising, all in all.

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