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Uploaded by on May 8, 2008

This bad boy took a major dislike to my son whose auto flash on his camera had just gone of virtually in its face. A tense stand off followed. He was around a metre from us, as we sat in our car. Filmed in the Kruger Park in April 2008.

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  • Once he had decided there was nothing for dinner, he walked to the other side of our vehicle and lay down. Then his buddy came over. He ignored us and also lay down. They were watching a herd of impala, but we couldn't hang around anymore as we had to go and get a change of underwear :-)

  • What happened? Did he just walk off after a while?

  • @Jorben84 Yes, once he was happy there was no more to worry about, he lumbered off and lay down about 20metres from us and we were able to breathe sighs of relief all round!

  • Nice Video Footage !

    When did U visit the park?

    Harry Monk

  • We were there a couple of weeks ago, Harry!

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  • @LadyLillianContessa For sure! In all my visits here since the 70s, I've never been this close to so large a lion in the wild. I could literally have touched him! :-o

  • @LadyLillianContessa For sure! In all my visits here since the 70s, I've never been this close to so large a lion in the wild. I could literally have touched him! :-o

  • When I was small my dad was stationed in the Gir Jungles in Gujrat (India). There we used to be literally 10ft from the lions all the time in an unprotected jeep. Used to be alert at night cause the leopards used to hunt at night. I was too little to member most of it. Pity.

  • this is amazing thanks for the post, i wanna see more hehe : )

  • seriously that Lion didn't even blink!.

  • JC wasn't with us. But we were in a car which was quite handy at the time.

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