Walking Around With Its Guts Hanging Out- Lioness Survives Being Gored By Buffalo (NSFW pics linked)
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[quote]A lioness whose leg was almost ripped off when a male buffalo gored her has made an incredible recovery thanks to emergency vets who flew out to treat her horrific wound.
The team of vets scrambled to the middle of the Masai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya when they heard about 11-year-old lioness Siena's life-threatening injuries.
Staff at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust - a specialist elephant rehabilitation centre - knew they would have to act quickly if they were to save the mother when they found her on April 4.
'The DSWT immediately deployed a Kenyan Wildlife Service vet Dr Njoroge from Nairobi and organized an aircraft for him to the Mara.
'Treatment started at 3.50pm after the lioness was successfully darted. The wound was extensive and involved damage to the soft tissue and skin.
'The vet cleansed the wound using normal saline and then sultured it. Siena's treatment took approximately one and a half hours and was a great success - she was able to rejoin her pride.
'With all teams working effectively and efficiently together the life of Siena and her cubs was saved.'
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[B]Source:[/B] [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605096/The-shocking-images-lioness-leg-ripped-gored-buffalo-amazingly-SURVIVED.html[/url]
Reasonably gory images of the Lioness beforehand:[url]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/15/article-2605096-1D200DBB00000578-763_634x417.jpg[/url]
[url]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/15/article-2605096-1D200DF100000578-643_634x437.jpg[/url]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/15/article-2605096-1D200DE400000578-932_634x383.jpg[/img]
[sp]No I don't read the DM, this popped up in related from a link I viewed[/sp]
Poor lioness, but that's life in the wild i guess.
I'm conflicted about saying that this is better than getting mauled by poachers.
Ouch! mind you I've seen worse on a video of a guy getting his face torn off by a bull, literally horn went through under the jaw and out his eye socket and the bull yanks his face off.
Just walk it off..
[QUOTE=Life On Mars;44556186]Ouch! mind you I've seen worse on a video of a guy getting his face torn off by a bull, literally horn went through under the jaw and out his eye socket and the bull yanks his face off.[/QUOTE]
A part of me i really don't want to admit exists is actually curious as to how this would look, even if only out of morbid curiosity and not pleasure in any way.
Well...what's the saying? Mess with the [B]buffalo[/B], you get the horns?
that's really cool.
That's great that they're helping these animals completely in their element, much better than story's of poachers and trophy hunters lately.
Cape Buffalo are rarely preyed upon by lions for this very reason, they have to be seriously desperate to take them on.
Cape Buffalo are angry, mean mothafuckas.
it's amazing they saved her.
She looks so sad in the second photo... Like that face of defeat and her knowledge of impending death.
What's even more amazing is that the extent of the recovery was successful enough that she was able to rejoin her pride rather than requiring human care for an extensive period.
[editline]16th April 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=EskillV2;44556081]Poor lioness, but that's life in the wild i guess.
I'm conflicted about saying that this is better than getting mauled by poachers.[/QUOTE]
Between this and poachers, this is the lesser of two evils. Human intervention in the form of poachers is disgusting and often out of material gain rather than necessity.
'Tis but a flesh wound!
Take a salt tablet
it'll buff right out
Kinda reminds me of the cow without a face gif.
Don't mess with buffalos.
Kinda sucks that there are so many other cases just like this in nature, and we can't save them all. But honestly at that point we would be disrupting the natural course of things.
Yea, my first thought was why not just put her down. Reminds me of those times when people rescue animals from being eaten from snakes or something. This has probably happened millions of times. Should we be intervening?
[QUOTE=The Ultimate;44557512]Kinda sucks that there are so many other cases just like this in nature, and we can't save them all. But honestly at that point we would be disrupting the natural course of things.[/QUOTE]
Well...I suppose...but look at it from the Buffalo's point of view. If he just stood there and took it like a bitch his guts would be hanging out. Would anyone be feeling sorry for a Buffalo? Probably not.
[QUOTE=IGotWorms;44557646] Would anyone be feeling sorry for a Buffalo? Probably not.[/QUOTE]
Well a lion is a cat, and everyone likes cats.
edit: I mean you dont see a buffalo doing things like this:
[img]http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/lion-tire-funny-gif-1123284.gif[/img]
Holy shit, how is it standing up like that?...
[QUOTE=IGotWorms;44557646]Well...I suppose...but look at it from the Buffalo's point of view. If he just stood there and took it like a bitch his guts would be hanging out. Would anyone be feeling sorry for a Buffalo? Probably not.[/QUOTE]
Key difference is that the buffalo would have been killed by the lions rather than suffering a slow death.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;44557550]Yea, my first thought was why not just put her down. Reminds me of those times when people rescue animals from being eaten from snakes or something. This has probably happened millions of times. Should we be intervening?[/QUOTE]
I think the difference here is that lions are a pretty endangered species nowadays?
Just a guess, I don't actually know.
[quote]'The vet cleansed the wound using normal saline and then sultured it. Siena's treatment took approximately one and a half hours and was a great success - she was able to rejoin her pride.
'With all teams working effectively and efficiently together the life of Siena and her cubs was saved.'[/quote]
holy fuck, 90 minutes after being almost disemboweled.
Bro lioness, bro. <3
[QUOTE=meatwad253;44557834]Holy shit, how is it standing up like that?...[/QUOTE]
Nerves between the femur and the spine probably weren't severed, and some pain gets bad enough that you just don't feel it anymore.
[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;44558220]Nerves between the femur and the spine probably weren't severed, and some pain gets bad enough that you just don't feel it anymore.[/QUOTE]
That, and it didn't look like there was any skeletal or muscular damage.
Death would have been due to infection.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;44557550]Yea, my first thought was why not just put her down. Reminds me of those times when people rescue animals from being eaten from snakes or something. This has probably happened millions of times. Should we be intervening?[/QUOTE]
Lions aren't quite endangered yet but they're currently listed as a vulnerable species.
I hope it doesn't tear open again at some point. Its not like they can tell her to take it easy for a few days.
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