Alex Braczkowski

So this was one particular pride of lions, certain individuals, and I'd never seen that behaviour before or after.

Yeah.

We just kind of dodged the termite mounds.

I managed to get the car in the right direction, slowly drove, and we just made a lot of noise, but the noise was completely...

It was like redundant.

It didn't help.

And this is the thing.

A lot of people, if you walk into lions on foot in the middle of the day, they're like big pussycats.

You can just clap and shout and they'll run away with their tails between their legs.

At night and at dusk, things completely change.

Why?

And they just lose complete fear of humans.

I think their eyesight is a lot better.

And because of that, they just grow a lot bolder.

So if you read Colonel James Patterson's original Managers of Tsavo book at the turn of the century when he's building that big railway, if you look at all the line attacks, most of those line attacks are all happening at night.

And if you look at even some of Craig Packer's analyses of –

Lion attacks in Tanzania, they almost always happen at night with a moon in the background.

People are walking between villages.

That's when lions are attacking people.

They're not happening in the day.