Woke up at 8.30, slight hang over from wine consumption the previous night, still not a wine fan.
Quite a jam packed day today, starting with lion breeding. Learnt a lot about the breeding program at antelope park, it consists of 4 stages starting with the rearing of lion cubs and finishing with the lions being placed back in the wild and being able to support themselves.
Managed to get some brilliant pictures, which I will post to Facebook soon.
2nd activity is lion feeding, this helps the researchers learn who is the most dominant male within a group of between 4 and 6 males.
A cows carcus is placed down one end of the pen and the lions are released from the alternative side of the pen and charge to the meat, the dominant male has first pick, again got 2 great videos of the feeding, a totally surreal thing to watch and to think only a 3m fence was stopping the lions from reaching us.
Me and Martin had a scare when a lion dropped his food and jumped straight up into the fence!
3rd activity was a night encounter where you go out on a jeep and which a pack of 4 lions hunt in a 2500 acre enclosure. Had set my hopes high for this but unfortunately didn't see a kill, seen several impalas but the lions didn't seem to fussed by them or hadn't seen them, there basic predator skills seemed to be lacking.
They were more into going for a stroll and grooming themselves.
Personal opinion was a waste of money but I think the hole encounter could of been improved by a smaller enclosure or more prey.