How to avoid the
top 10 safari mistakes
Introduction
Spending too
little
Group
tours
Missing the
best hours
Minivans
Self driving
Uncomfortable camp
Dusty air
Booking
Wrong
clothing
Camera
shake
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mistakes
tips you can trust
Worrying that lions will
jump into your vehicle
It's
extremely unlikely
You are more likely to be in an automobile accident back home than being attacked by a lion. Unless a lion's traditional food (game) is scarce, it will seldom seek human meat, for various reasons, including the following.
Odor
We humans smell awful to lions. So do the gas fumes of your safari vehicle.
We're
not a menu priority
The flesh of safari animals like elands, wildebeests and wart
hogs is considerably meatier and more abundant than that of
humans in safari parks. It's also tastier.
Provocation
In rare cases when a lion does attack humans
in a game preserve, it is almost always
because the beast was provoked or cornered.
Exception
to the rule
Over the last few decades in Tanzania, lions have ended the lives of over 500 villagers, herders
and farmers outside the animal-rich safari reserves. The primary reason is that the
population of the animals such as elands and zebras that lions traditionally eat is quite low
(due to hunting by the natives) in those
human-inhabited areas. Hungry, the lions attack humans and their cattle.
Ignoring warnings
Be
escorted at night
If you are instructed to call the main lodge for an employee to escort you between your cottage or tent and main lodge building at night, do it. Sometimes unescorted guests are knocked down, trampled, or at least severely frightened by elephants and other wild animals that pass through the grounds in the dark.
Stay
in your vehicle
Don't get out of your private vehicle if the reserve forbids it. You don't know what might be lurking in the bushes.
Mistakes -
Health & safety - Page two
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