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Old Jun 3, 2015 | 10:23 am
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I would be interested in a real discussion here about this park. I have been on walking safaris in Botswana where I have viewed lionesses eating a kill while a male watched our group. I have driven in open jeeps quite close to lions many times.

I have never been to a park like this one. Is it something more akin to a zoo perhaps? I understand this park has had several problems. I have read this park at one time was raising lions for humans to hunt. I am curious if there are conditions at a park like this one that make it more likely they will attack humans in vehicles. Are the animals more likely to be stressed from a high number of cars? Are they in close confines? Do they get to hunt?

Ironically, the young woman (29, not 22) was on some sort of a sponsored mission to tag animals to protect them. I find odd she would be at this park.

Curious if anyone has dialogue to offer beyond treating her death so cruelly.

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