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Exciting trip to the lion & rhino reserve yesterday. We arrived as six lions were tearing apart a carcass in a grassy arena, oblivious to the ring of cars circling them.

We had been handed a list of instructions at the gate detailing how to avoid being eaten by the lions. Specifically, getting out of the car and having your windows wide open were a big no-no. So naturally, many people were waving their children out of their car's sun roof and sitting perched on the edge of open windows.  If I were a lion I would've definitely abandoned the chunk of dead horse and gone to investigate the tasty living humans.

At the Siberian tiger breeding enclosure one of the park employees was apparently showing off for his friends, creeping on all fours along the fence and generally trying to look like a stalking animal. The tiger seemed very interested in all this. When the man broke into a little sprint, the gigantic tiger leaped up and charged across the field towards him, giving everyone watching heart palpitations as it closed in on the flimsy-looking fence. It seemed to me that this was in contravention of the 'Do not tease the animals' signage prominently displayed around the park.