Lions don't attack tourists in sightseeing bus?

Many photos and videos of lions we saw were taken by tourists or photographers on the sightseeing bus, especially in some wildlife images in Africa. We often see someone slapping a lion on the sightseeing bus, but the lion doesn't respond.

The lion is an animal with a strong sense of territory. Close-up shooting is equivalent to being in the lion's territory. Because the lion didn't respond when it invaded the territory, it really gave people the feeling that the lion didn't attack sightseeing bus tourists. But is this really the case? The answer is obviously no, because some people pay the price of their lives because of self-confidence.

Lions attack tourists.

According to the distribution area, lions can generally be divided into Asian lions and African lions. However, this classification is not scientific, because there are only two subspecies of lions today: South Lion and North Lion, while Asian lions and lions distributed in central and northern Africa belong to North Lion. We say that Asian lions and African lions are just to distinguish regions.

Comparatively speaking, the appearance rate of Asian lions is not high, because now they only live in India's Gil National Forest Park, unlike their "brothers" African lions who live on vast grasslands, so what we see in wildlife documentaries is usually African lions.

The protagonist of the lion's "cannibalism" incident mentioned above is the African lion. It happened on June, 2065438 1 day, in the Lion Reserve near Johannesburg, South Africa. A 22-year-old American woman and a local tour guide drove through the lion area, and the female tourist opened the window to take pictures of the lion. As a result, a lion jumped up quickly and bit the female tourist. When the tour guide saw it, he quickly waved his fist and tried to repel the lion.

This is not the first time a lion has attacked people in the park. In the three months before the incident, there were two incidents in which lions bit tourists in the car.

Rare white lion in the park

Of course, the protected areas where these lion bites occurred are different from other African wildlife reserves. It belongs to the Wild Lion Park. Lions are wild and have not been fed, but unlike lions in other protected areas, they can only move in parks.

Moreover, the biting incident was caused by tourists illegally opening the window and getting off the bus under the premise that many warning signs of "No Window Opening and Getting off" have been set up in the park. Under normal circumstances, lions rarely attack tourists in real African wildlife reserves, although tourists may drive convertibles and there are fewer attacks.

Why do lions in real protected areas seldom attack tourists in sightseeing bus?

As the top animal in the food chain, it is normal for lions to attack all animals, especially those entering their own territory. However, in Africa's truly free wildlife reserves, it is very rare for lions to attack people. This seems unreasonable, but in fact, people have found a way to live in peace with lions.

The first thing is to get what you need. The purpose of man is to observe wild animals, while the purpose of lion is to hunt. As long as the two animals are in their proper places and don't disturb each other, lions can avoid attacking people. So how do you get what you want? First of all, the sightseeing bus we see is usually driven by a tour guide to the lion activity area in advance. When we drive there, there are usually no lions, which depends on the experience of the tour guide.

This can prevent the noise of the car engine from disturbing the passing lions, and then people will come. Before departure, the tour guide will give every visitor a safety notice: don't stick your head out of the window casually, don't make a big fight, don't make a noise and provoke, don't turn on the camera flash, and don't get off the bus.

This is a hard requirement, and the tour guide will repeatedly emphasize to the tourists that they can get off the bus if they can't do it, and the tour guide will not make fun of human life. These requirements are actually trying not to disturb the lion, so as to meet their own needs.

The second is safety. Although the sightseeing bus we saw looks nothing special, in fact, the most common sightseeing bus in African protected areas is similar to a van, except that there is a convertible on the top. The glass of this car is specially made to ensure that the lion will not be broken when he is crazy. The window is closed and only the opening above can be photographed. There is a steel ceiling above the opening. There is a small gap between the ceiling and the car, and there is a roof that can be opened and closed freely below to ensure that even lions can take pictures.

Some sightseeing bus even directly covered with a cage-type cover, which is more secure.

In addition to the protection of cars, we can also see some cars, without which we can completely open the car. In fact, there are protective measures, that is, tour guides have guns, and large carnivores are afraid of loud noise. Once the lion tries to pounce, the tour guide will empty the gun to scare the lion away, which is also a common safety measure.

Third: the integration of people and vehicles. Any carnivore, no matter how fierce, will weigh the strength difference between itself and the target before attacking the target, and the size is a key factor in their strength difference judgment criteria.

Although people are not as big as lions, they are sitting in cars. In the eyes of lions, people and cars are one. Such a huge size is also the main reason to discourage most lions from attacking.

This lion is very tough.

Fourth: habit. Africa is a relatively poor continent, which is determined by the climate. The dry season that lasted for half a year almost discouraged most crops. However, tourism in Africa is very developed. In the 20 19 years before the outbreak, tourism contributed168 billion dollars to Africa.

The cornerstone of tourism is wildlife sightseeing on the African savannah. In order to allow more tourists to observe wild animals at close range more safely, the African tourism department began the transformation of sightseeing bus and sightseeing bus at the beginning of tourism to adapt to the territory of lions and other wild animals.

It is this constant adaptation that makes the lion adapt to the life of a big guy who has nothing to do with the territory. These big guys are not annoying. They are quiet and won't disturb themselves, so the lions will slowly turn a blind eye to these sightseeing bus.

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Lions will attack tourists in sightseeing bus, but in real wildlife reserves, lions rarely attack. This is because this phenomenon has been tested and cultivated for a long time, and the car itself is defensive. The tour guide is more familiar with the habits of lions and has a gun in his hand. Of course, the most important thing is that tourists should be obedient, don't make noise, don't provoke, don't get off the bus and try not to open the window.