Researchers filmed two African lions avoiding crocodiles and hippos as they crossed Uganda's Kazinga Channel
When night fell on Uganda’s second-largest national park in early February, Jacob , a three-legged African lion, made several attempts to cross a dangerous channel with his brother, Tibu. Likely motivated by a scarcity of lionesses and the “strong” presence of humans at the only available land connection, the two lions repeatedly entered the Kazinga channel in darkness.
Griffith University scientist Alexander Braczkowski led the expedition in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, with funding from Queensland, Australia’s Griffith University and Northern Arizona University. “It was pretty dramatic,” Braczkowski told the New York Times. The lions look “like two tiny little heat signatures crossing an ocean,” he said, remarking on footage captured by Cape Town videographer Luke Ochse.
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