Four Lions Were Defeated By A Single Hippo

"Hippopotamus" is a tremendous, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae. The name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse" . After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third largest type of mammalian found in land and the heaviest extant artiodactyl. "Lion", The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second largest living cat after the tiger.

In a recent incident, a giant hippo turned the tables on a hungry pride of lions when they tried to attack him  by fighting itself  against them, out of a tricky situation before chasing the vicious predators away. A pictures taken by French photography duo Laurent Renaud and Dominique Haution, these incredible photos shows a group of lions creep up on a lone hippopotamus on the plains of Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.But instead of becoming dinner for the pride, the brave hippo fights against and the lions turn on their heels fearing they might get a flavor of their own medicine. It's incredible and bravery of the hippo that the hippo manage to escape and to rejoin the river.

In the photographs, we can see a male lion circles the hippo before two lions jump on it and try and bring it down. They appear to be successful when the hippo is forced into a ditch and four lions jump on its back. But within a few moments the hippo proves them wrong, hippo bared its teeth and managed to shake the pride off. After then he lions are sent muddling onto the grasslands and the hippo even starts to chase them away as it snarls victoriously.

Dangerous rare elephants pose conservation conundrum

What happens when the neighbour from hell is an endangered species? Next month, scientists and elephant handlers will begin capturing 23 Asian elephants that are menacing the Hassan district of Karnataka, India – the first operation of its kind in 40 years. What the authorities plan to do next has upset conservationists.

The elephants have killed 46 people in the Hassan district, according to a 2012 report by the Karnataka Elephant Task Force. The animals, which also damage crops, live in tiny pockets of forest in an otherwise farmed area that is home to 200,000 people.

India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 makes it illegal to cull the elephants – they are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List.

Moving the elephants to a new area is the best option, according to Marion Garaï of the Elephant Specialist Advisory Group based in South Africa.

The task force disagrees, saying that the elephants will simply return to their former territory. With its farmed crops, Hassan is the elephant equivalent of a supermarket, says Sukumar Raman of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, who heads up the task force.

On his team's recommendations, the elephants will instead be trained and used by the forestry department for non-commercial purposes – the Wildlife Protection Act prohibits the use of captive elephants for commercial activities.

Garaï cannot support the move. "Only captive-born elephants can be used for captive purposes," she says.

Gay Bradshaw at the Kerulos Center in Jackson, Oregon, who established in 2005 that elephants can experience post-traumatic distress when their herds are broken up, agrees. "Neither eliminating entire herds nor consigning them to labour camps is a scientific or ethically acceptable solution," she says.

रेष्टुँरामा लोकप्रिय बन्न थाल्यो मुसाको कवाब

डा. बाबुराम भट्टराई प्रधानमन्त्री हुँदा कैलालीमा मुसाको चटनी खाएको विषयले निकै चर्चा पाएको थियो । थारु समुदायमा मुसाको चटनीसहितका परिकार बन्नु नौलो होइन । तर, तपाईले कहिल्यै मुसोका कबाबको स्वाद चाख्नु भउको छ ? यदि तपाई यो अनौठो स्वाद चाख्न चाहनुहुन्छ भने भियतनाम भ्रमणमा जानुस् ।

राजधानी हनोर्डको बाहिरी इलाका डान फुआगस्थित रेष्टुँरामा मुसाको व्यञ्जन पाइन्छ । मुसाको मासु यो क्षेत्रको लोकप्रिय परिकार हो । यो देशका विभिन्न स्थानमा फैलने क्रम पनि छ । यसअघि उत्तरी रातो नदी र मेकाङ्ग नदी किनारमा बस्ने मानिसहरुले मात्र मुसाको मासु खाने गरेका थिए ।

यस वर्ष जब खेतमा धान काट्न थालियो । किसानहरु मुसा मार्न पनि व्यस्त रहे । ताकि त्यसलाई बजारमा लगेर केही आम्दानी गर्न सकियोस् । समाचारहरुमा जनाइएअनुसार एक किलो मुसाको मासुको मुल्य एक लाख डांग अर्थात ४/५ डलर छ ।

यीमध्ये कुन चाँही जनावर राम्रो ?? (फोटोसहित)

 सबै जनावरहरू हामीलाई मन पर्दैनन् । कारण उनीहरुको डरलाग्दो बानी, नराम्रो रूप, हिंस्रक बानी तथा अन्य केही कारणले हामीलाई सबै जनावरको सामुन्ने पर्न हामीलाई निकै गाह्रो लाग्ने गर्छ । सकेसम्म हामी आफुलाई मन नपर्ने जनावरको नजिक पर्न चाहँदैनौ र ती जनावरका बारेमा हामी कुनै जानकारी पनि लिँदैनौ ।

यस कारण केही जनावरहरू यस्ता पनि छन् जो देख्दा निकै नराम्रा छन् तर, ती संरक्षणको अभावमा लोप हुने अवस्थामा पुगेका छन् र कसैले नचिन्ने अवस्थामा पनि पुगेका छन् । त्यस्ता जनावरहरूको संरक्षण गर्न एउटा संस्था लागिपरेको छ, संस्थाको नाम हो एनिमल प्रिजर्भेसन सोसाइटी । यो संस्थाले हामीलाई देख्दै घिन लाग्ने, डरलाग्ने तथा अन्य हामीले सकेसम्म देख्न नचाहने जनावरहरुको संरक्षण गर्ने गर्छ ।

न्युकासलमा आगामी १२ सेप्टेम्बरमा हुने ब्रिटिस साइन्सेज फेस्टिबलमा हामीलाई हेर्दा समेत घिनलाग्ने तथा डरलाग्ने जनावरहरूको प्रतियोगीता राखिएको छ । यसमा त्यहाँ उपस्थित हुने मानिसहरुले भोट गर्न पाउँछन् । यसमा भोट गर्दा सबैभन्दा बढी भोट पाउने जनावरलाई सबैभन्दा नराम्रो जनावरको उपाधी प्रदान गरिनेछ ।

हामीले प्रत्यक्ष रूपमा उक्त प्रतियोगितामा भाग त लिन पाउँदैनौ तर केहि जनावरको तस्विर भने अवस्य हेर्न पाइन्छ । हेरौ केहि जनावरहरूको तस्विर…

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