Big Cat Odyssey

For some people, studying big cats is not just a hobby, but a life's work. Following award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert on their 30-year-long quest to document the behaviour of big cats in Botswana, this film brings together three decades worth of material, including extraordinary footage of hunting lions, scavenging hyenas and stealthy leopards.See firsthand the numerous changes that have led to dramatic decline of the lion population, and what needs to be done in order to ensure their survival.

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Science & Technology

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• Big
• Cat
• Odyssey

[pchellini]

@Yaosedroo The filmmakers did not shoot the lion--it's the safari hunters who did. This was shown to exemplify the enormity of the problem--lions are disappearing and are in serious trouble. Trophy hunting of large male lions disrupts prides and is absolutely devastating in effect.

[Yaosedroo]

Why did they shoot the lion at 18:35 ? :(

[bobbiedepriest1]

@HenryDavidT....that couldn't have been better stated. I agree. What a mad world we live in.

[HenryDavidT]

Part of the answer may be staring at us in the face: we isolate & devastate the gene pool of these giant cats to the extend where phenotypes, even still at 30K, no longer sway: it's the small & rapidly diminishing, over-all genotypes (particuarly in small, isolated & "safe" pockets of lions, as shown here, w/ too many deleterious, recessive genes expressing through high in-breeding ratios) that is causing these internal-sister-infanticide & other related self/group destructive acts...