Posted on 06/21/2012 11:44:28 AM PDT by george76
Six lions were speared to death by angry residents after preying on dozens of goats and cows in a settlement near the Kenyan capital's national park.
Herders in the small township of Kitengela, on the outskirts of Nairobi, ambushed the animals because they said they had been killing their livestock.
The group, who are mainly Maasai pastoralists, said about 28 goats and eight cows had been killed by the marauding lions in the last two days.
Francis Kasha, a livestock keeper, whose animals were killed in a previous attack says these types of incidents have been on the increase, forcing herders to find a solution on how to protect their animals.
We gathered as we waited for Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) officials to come and catch the lions, but some people became too rowdy and it was impossible to stop them from killing the lions.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Hey, maybe those Sea Shepherd douchebags could take a break from saving the whales, sail to Africa, and position their selfless bodies between the lions and the spears...
it would be great reality teevee. Spear? Or Tooth ‘n Claw?
Either way we’d be rid of ‘em.
Hey, maybe those Sea Shepherd douchebags could take a break from saving the whales, sail to Africa, and position their selfless bodies between the lions and the spears...
it would be great reality teevee. Spear? Or Tooth ‘n Claw?
Either way we’d be rid of ‘em.
Anybody who kills lions with a spear has great big solid brass ones.
I had a dog once. Nice dog. When it started killing chickens it had to be put down.
These Lions found an easy prey. Sooner or later they would have gotten one of these farmers kids.
we waited for officials to come and catch the lions, but
The amazing thing is... these are Obama’s cousins. Imagine him spearing anything but a waffle.
Those are not like our 100 to 150lb mountain lions, those are LIONS!
Damn... bobcats are tough enough, but African lions... they don't play!!
/johnny
My father was a huge fan of African big game hunters’ stories. He collected books on them for years.
What he told me (inspired, as I recall, by a diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum) was that the hunters would surround the chosen lion...and the one who accrued the highest accolades was not the one who speared the lion, but the one who grabbed and held the lion’s tail as the others speared the hell out of the animal.
To clarify...that’s tribal hunters, generally the young men from the village looking to “score” and become braves.
Thank God when I get rowdy,I get tired and fall asleep!
As I understand it, in traditional Masai society a youth could not marry until he had killed either a man or a lion.
I believe the Masai also have the world’s highest rate of venereal disease.
I have no idea how, or if, these two things are connected.
They're just big kitties!
Don’t remember the book, but I distinctly recall reading about tribal hunters, up around Ethiopia or Sudan if I remember aright, who hunted elephants on horseback using broadswords.
They’re big alright, did you the paws on them? LOL!
“The amazing thing is... these are Obama’s cousins. Imagine him spearing anything but a waffle.”
Any bets on Bammy “spearing” in the Queer Bathhouse he and Rhambo are members?
From the article come this: “According to KWS, Kenya has been losing 100 lions a year for the past seven years.
Should this continue, Kenya will have no wild lions in the next twenty years.”
Libtard meat on the table, folks. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.
To take the first slice, so to speak: “According to KWS” - That’s the problem!
Note that all AgencyPersons know their obligatory role is protecting their agency and thus their pay check. This statement is proof of the universality of human nature in that some 12,000 miles away from American “bureau-scientists” an African copy of an American “wildlife management AgencyPerson” can spout the same enviro-socialist deliberate duplicities.
Isn’t it nice to know that pseudo-scientific bureaucratic baffle gab is spoken equally well around the world? And, I note, by white and black, too.
Doesn’t that bring a warm & fuzzy feeling to you? Hold that warm fuzzy feeling while we continue.
Kenyan lions are big cats, and breed like, well, like cats. Kenya needs to cull the lion population, and these Masaai are doing it in the best possible manner because:
1. the cull is localized.
2. the cull is locally managed.
3. the cull did not cost any agency anything.
Good wildlife management and done for free. What is not to like?
PS IMHO, the older member of the tribe described the failure of the KWS better than most lawyers could have done.
My goodness! How big are those horses if they can carry elephants?
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