warthog

People are saying this little warthog has a set of wings nobody can see because when a pride of lions snuck up on it, the warthog took off.

 

Kruger National Park, South Africa – Dana Atkinson, an author from Florida, United States has travelled thirteen of Africa’s countries and filmed this incredible sighting in the Kruger National Park, which took place only a few kilometres from the Tshokwane picnic site.

Dana has written three books including “Traveling Africa, A Woman’s Guide” which gives the reader practical advice to travel to Africa safely. It covers everything from how to decide what trip is right for you to how to properly pack for that trip and everything you need to know in-between. She shared her video with Latest Sightings.

“Only four kilometers north of Tshokwane, where there are two dirt short loops overlooking the now dry river bed, one car was stopped on the first loop. Interested in what they were looking at but not wanting to disturb them, I pulled into the second one to give them privacy and turned off my car.  Soon I noticed seven lions on the bank across the river bed.

Since they weren’t doing anything but sleeping and laying around many people came, took pictures and left. I stayed because through my binoculars I could see the lioness in the front was watching left and right down the river bed with great intent and I knew if she saw something she was going to begin a hunt.

I sat there for over an hour until finally, it was just me and one other car. What kept me there, as I watched the pride through the binoculars was the lion in the front. All of the other cats were flat cats; sound asleep. But not this one. She was alert and watching the riverbed.

She’d look one way down the riverbed for a while then the other way. I knew she was on the hunt and should anything wander by, there would be action. After about an hour, with only me and one other car there, the lioness perked up, eyeballing my side of the bank. I saw the warthog and started filming.

I won’t spoil the ending of the video for you except to say I bet this warthog soiled himself. I know I almost did as you can tell from my EXCELLENT narration.”

Watch the incredible sighting below.


Sources: Supplied
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