the lion has an unfortunate reputation
for being phenomenally lazy and I would
just like to set the record straight
they’re not really lazy they’re very
patient
they have this sort of lifestyle that
you really as a scientist also have to
be extremely patient in order to get a
sense of what’s really going wrong
there have been several things that I’ve
learned about liens that I never ever
would have guessed first and foremost we
wanted to know wireline social all the
other cats are solitary militantly
solitary get lions do so many different
things at a group level so over the
years students and myself have worked
together to try to figure out if they
were social because of advantages of
hunting in groups and the answer there
is no is it because they can raise their
cubs more successfully and the answer to
that is yes but it’s a complicated
answer the real reason why lions live in
groups is the fact that they have access
to very valuable territory that’s often
centered around key hotspots in the
environment usually the confluences of
tributaries where the prey become more
abundant so the Lions have food water
and shelter and a pride to be able to
reproduce successfully needs to have
several of those hotspots so it can have
enough food over the two years it takes
to raise a new cohort of young
in the back m’kay 54 she was one of the
founders of this pride work monitoring
over 300 lines and 24 different social
groups we’re interested in getting as
much data as we can every day so that we
can have a really comprehensive picture
what’s happening now in real time when
you operate on that scale you get a much
better and more precise picture of
what’s really important in the lions
lives
right now we’re actually in one of the
most exciting phases of this 46 years
research project because just beginning
a few years ago we started setting up
these camera traps these 225 cameras
generate 1 million photographs a year
and for the very first time we not only
know where the liens are we’re getting
day and night information about where
the wildebeest
where are the giraffe where are the
aardvarks so the very first time now we
know how the Lions are likely to respond
to subtle changes in the distribution of
their prey throughout their territories
over about a 1000 kilometer area the
Lions to survive we’re going to need
huge stretches of undisturbed land
there’s no other country in the world
that has nearly as many lines as does
Tanzania but the country is struggling
to be able to conserve those wild areas
the Serengeti if it can be protected can
provide a home for lions forever
you
for being phenomenally lazy and I would
just like to set the record straight
they’re not really lazy they’re very
patient
they have this sort of lifestyle that
you really as a scientist also have to
be extremely patient in order to get a
sense of what’s really going wrong
there have been several things that I’ve
learned about liens that I never ever
would have guessed first and foremost we
wanted to know wireline social all the
other cats are solitary militantly
solitary get lions do so many different
things at a group level so over the
years students and myself have worked
together to try to figure out if they
were social because of advantages of
hunting in groups and the answer there
is no is it because they can raise their
cubs more successfully and the answer to
that is yes but it’s a complicated
answer the real reason why lions live in
groups is the fact that they have access
to very valuable territory that’s often
centered around key hotspots in the
environment usually the confluences of
tributaries where the prey become more
abundant so the Lions have food water
and shelter and a pride to be able to
reproduce successfully needs to have
several of those hotspots so it can have
enough food over the two years it takes
to raise a new cohort of young
in the back m’kay 54 she was one of the
founders of this pride work monitoring
over 300 lines and 24 different social
groups we’re interested in getting as
much data as we can every day so that we
can have a really comprehensive picture
what’s happening now in real time when
you operate on that scale you get a much
better and more precise picture of
what’s really important in the lions
lives
right now we’re actually in one of the
most exciting phases of this 46 years
research project because just beginning
a few years ago we started setting up
these camera traps these 225 cameras
generate 1 million photographs a year
and for the very first time we not only
know where the liens are we’re getting
day and night information about where
the wildebeest
where are the giraffe where are the
aardvarks so the very first time now we
know how the Lions are likely to respond
to subtle changes in the distribution of
their prey throughout their territories
over about a 1000 kilometer area the
Lions to survive we’re going to need
huge stretches of undisturbed land
there’s no other country in the world
that has nearly as many lines as does
Tanzania but the country is struggling
to be able to conserve those wild areas
the Serengeti if it can be protected can
provide a home for lions forever
you
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