[BITList] Incredible wild Life Encounter

Sun May 31 17:28:59 BST 2015

*WOW!!!!*

*Photographer Evan Schiller and **Lisa Holzwarth 
<http://laholzwarth.wordpress.com/>**were on a game drive in the 
northern Botswana's Selinda area when they came across a big troop of 
baboons charging through the bush.*

*"30-40 baboons were heading in our general direction making a lot of 
noise," Lisa recalls.*

*The baboons were obviously frightened by something and they all 
scampered up trees, shouting, alarming, and making a big scene. It 
quickly became clear what the problem was: two large lionesses came out 
of the tall grass and rushed the baboons into the trees, soon joined by 
two more lionesses. **"Between the baboons shrieking and the lionesses 
communicating with deep guttural roars, it was a mad scene," Lisa says.*

*But then the real chaos began! One brave baboon descended the dead tree 
and tried to make a run for it. but got snapped up in the jaws of a 
lioness.*

*Description: lions and baboons*

*The lioness grabbed a female baboon on the run. But there was something 
else there. As the baboon lay dying in the jaws of the lioness, a little 
baby (less than a month old) slowly disengaged from its mother's body. 
Photograph by Evan Schiller***

Description: Lioness and baby baboon

*Instinct took over and the baby tried to make a go for a tree, but did 
not have the strength to climb. At this point the lioness noticed the 
"little guy" and went over to investigate. Photograph by Evan Schiller***

Description: Lioness and baby baboon

*Instead of snapping the baby up in a deadly movement, she started to 
play with the baboon. Photograph by Evan *

*Schiller*

Description: Lioness and baby baboon

*The lioness was inquisitive and gentle at the same time. Photograph by 
Evan Schiller*

Description: The lioness softly picks up the baby baboon and drops it in 
front of her. Photo by Evan Schiller

*After a while she picked up the baboon softly in her mouth and walked 
away, then settled down with the baby between her paws. Photograph by 
Evan Schiller*

*Description: Lioness and baby baboon*

*In a strange behavioural twist, the baboon started to try and suckle 
the lioness. Photograph by Evan Schiller*

*/What happened next blew our minds - the baby, in another instinctual 
moment, held onto the lioness' chest and tried to suckle./**//*

Description: Lioness and baby baboon

*Photograph by Evan Schiller*

Description: Back off Jack!

*The lioness got distracted-this time by two male lions who arrived on 
the scene. Their advances, however, were met with aggression by the 
lioness. Was she defending the baby baboon? Or just uninterested in 
their mating advances? Photograph by Evan Schiller*

*Here's where it gets interesting: Waiting in a nearby tree is a big 
male baboon, who is obviously intent on saving the baby. The male lions 
were causing such a ruckus that it presented a short window of 
opportunity for the brave hero to descend the tree, grab the baby and 
head back to safety.*

*The father baboon had to make a move. Holding the baby, in all sorts of 
contorted positions, he tried numerous times to climb down the tree. He 
tested the lionesses' interest with each descent. Photograph by Evan 
Schiller*

*The heroic male baboon, having just saved the baby from the lions, 
cradled him in his arms. Photograph by Evan Schiller*

Description: img_2368

*/"I was touched by how gently the father baboon held this little baby 
who was in tough shape after its ordeal." /*

*Life is fragile and no matter how much we fight to control its outcome, 
all we can do is live in the moment."*

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