Why do lions rarely attack photographers and tourists in cars?

We watch many African wildlife documentaries. Many tourists in sightseeing bus use various shooting equipment to shoot fierce wild carnivores such as lions and leopards. Even many people dare to come out near these beasts, which makes people feel scared. While being afraid, many friends are thinking that lions and leopards are obviously fierce carnivores. Why do they seldom attack tourists and photographers in sightseeing bus? Let me give my opinion.

The habits of lions

There are many wild reserves on the African prairie, the most famous of which is the starting point of the great migration of animals in East Africa: Tan.

Serengeti National Park in Sang Ya (starting point) and Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya (ending point). In this great animal migration, it is a famous animal migration in Africa. Many people go to Africa to see wild animals because they watched a documentary about the great migration of animals in East Africa.

On the grassland, the lion is the "king of the grassland". Every June or so, as herbivores begin to migrate, lions, as carnivores, must also migrate with "food". Usually, the diet of lions is relatively fixed, and the prey is mainly medium and large herbivores, such as zebras and African buffaloes.

A relatively fixed diet is one of the survival laws of carnivores in nature, which can ensure the safety of their food and hunting. Humans are not in the diet of lions, and carnivores are usually not interested in strange animals.

This is one of the reasons why lions rarely attack tourists.

safety measure

When you go to the African prairie, you can't just drive a car with photographic equipment, because many people don't know the habits of wild animals, so you need a guide at this time. Almost everyone who visits wild animals will be accompanied by a special car. Professional tour guides can park their vehicles in the nearest place to wild animals without offending them. Just like a lion with a strong shooting territory, the shooting position is generally on the edge of the lion territory.

Secondly, it is forbidden to use flash when shooting, because the strong light of flash may irritate fierce wild animals, and it is often forbidden to lean out of the car or get off the bus to shoot.

With professional people and cars, plus observing some regulations, you can avoid angering wild animals to the greatest extent, so the chance of being attacked will be reduced.

Man-vehicle integration

If a person faces a lion, then this person is not as big as a lion. In the eyes of the lion, the threat of the animal "man" in front of him is relatively low. At this time, as a carnivore, the lion may attack. However, in the car, the whole person can't tell the difference between the car and the lion. In its eyes, people and car groups have become bigger objects than themselves (referring to the relationship between lions and elephants). For security reasons, they won't attack.

However, in any case, lions are wild animals, and they are very aggressive. It is not absolute not to attack. Relatively speaking, humans are not in their diet. If you shoot from a distance, don't turn on the flash, don't try to scare them, they still don't care about you. And with the protection of tour guides and cars, there will be no problem under normal circumstances.

From the recent incidents in which zoo animals attacked tourists, we can see that these attacked people did not abide by the regulations of the park, or did not listen to dissuasion, or climbed over the wall to escape tickets.

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Lions are clever animals. It must have been attacked in the early days, but because I have seen the power of human beings (guns), I will keep a certain distance from human beings. Later, with more and more tourists, they gradually became familiar with people. After several fights, the lion found that these people had no malice towards themselves and naturally had no desire to attack. However, don't let these fierce wild animals feel threatened, or they will attack without hesitation.

Why do lions rarely attack photographers and tourists in cars?

So lions basically don't attack photographers and tourists.

My husband is in Africa. Let me answer a question.

I analyze three points.

1. Lions are naturally sensitive to prey.

2. Preys are naturally afraid of their natural enemies.

3. People's self-protection measures.

First, the lion family is headed by lions, and the females are responsible for hunting. Who is their prey and who is on their menu have evolved for thousands of years and become hereditary.

Lions have a strong sense of territory. As parents, lions mark their territory with urine and patrol regularly.

On the African prairie, there are many animals that lions can hunt, such as antelope, bison, wildebeest and wild boar, which are all staple foods. In the dry season when you don't have enough to eat, you may kill some fish, baboons, pythons and even giraffes. Elephants and hippos who are alone may also be hunted, but this does not happen often. These are all animals in their territory. They have lived in the same place for thousands of years and know each other's position in the food chain.

Humans, however, are rare animals, not living in the territory of lions, not part of the grassland ecological chain. Lions will not rashly treat humans as food unless they are tested repeatedly and can be eaten. Especially when the menu is rich, there is no reason to choose humans as the staple food.

Second, the prey is also extremely sensitive to who will kill themselves and who is their natural enemy. An antelope may not care about the baboons and bison around it, but once it smells lions, hyenas and wild dogs, it will go straight into the sky and run quickly.

In order to survive, the innate fear gene of prey is passed down from generation to generation and becomes a necessity for survival. They know that as long as the lion appears in their sight, they must run away at once. Courageous guys will be eaten and will not inherit their offspring. And their fears will soon be locked by predators, who are their prey, and a life-and-death chase will begin immediately.

For herbivores, recognizing who is the enemy is the key to survival.

That is, what we often say now is blood suppression.

Third, human characteristics.

Humans are not afraid of animals because of their wisdom and effective protection measures. Human's fear of carnivores will only be strong in the early primitive society. It's faded long ago! If the lion can't feel our fear, it will know that we humans are not its prey. Just like an adult elephant, there is no fear of the lion at all, and the lion will leave sadly.

But lions are also willing to try new foods. Humans who go to the African grasslands to see animals, if a person meets a lion looking for food, will be happy to hunt and taste it.

Therefore, tourists who go to see animals usually sit on a special pickup truck, which is like an iron cage and is taken to the place near the edge of the lion territory by professional guides and drivers to enjoy it from a distance. For example, watch the great migration of animals in the East African prairie.

Sometimes, in the season when lions are rich in food, tourists can sit in the car without opening the window, or watch lions eat at close range with their mouths open. Lions don't care, because there is food, and tourists don't care, because lions have food and hide in cars, so they are not afraid. For example, national parks in South Africa.

The people sitting in the car are animals as big as elephants in the eyes of lions. It is huge and does not feel the fear of human beings. If it wants to try, it needs to assess the risk. Animals can't afford to be hurt. In nature, injury means that they can't hunt, so they have to die. Therefore, the lion will not try the elephant, so he will not try the human in the car like an elephant.

Animals are not stupid. . Knowing that human beings are their own masters, the subconscious should also be said to suppress blood. Are there any living animals that kill people crazily?

Because lions are used to and familiar with photographers, they will not bring harm to themselves, and there is no danger. Moreover, every time tourists come, they will bring some delicious food, and lions also know how to be grateful.

A group of people who don't understand are talking nonsense! Especially those who talk the most! The reason why the lion doesn't attack the people in the car is simple, because it doesn't know where its neck is, but you get off and try.

The most common way for photographers to shoot is to sit in the car and follow the lion. In general, lions don't take the initiative to attack photographers. First, no one exists in the lion's diet. When a lion sees a person, it doesn't immediately think of eating. In the face of strangers, lions who do not feel threatened generally do not take the initiative to attack humans. Secondly, sometimes we see some lions sitting on the ground in documentaries, and the photographer's car is close to them, but the lions turn a blind eye to human beings, which may be because the lions are full; Third, many photographers are staff members of wild reserves, and they often come in and out of wild reserves to contact lions, so lions have no malice towards them and naturally will not attack them.

Animals also have the ability to think, and if they attack humans in front of powerful humans, they will face life danger. It's not that I don't prey on humans, but I dare not.

If drivers, tourists and tour guides are attacked, those who spread relevant photos and videos will be arrested and their illegal photos will be destroyed.

I really can't stand it. None of these answers hit the point. Lions don't attack people in cars, because they think that people and cars are integrated, and they don't threaten them and can't chew, so they don't attack people. I don't believe you, why don't you get off and try?