The BBC crew said she was found “lying on her side, foaming at the mouth, fitting and panting” before she died.Ĭonservationists first noticed something was wrong on Sunday morning when some of the lions, “were acting strangely collapsing and suffering from spasms”, according to a statement from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which funds a mobile veterinary unit in the reserve. “I am sick to the heart to hear of the poisoning of the Marsh Pride lions, and horrified to think of the pain they suffered as they died,” said Saba Douglas-Hamilton, a Kenyan conservationist and television presenter who worked on Big Cat Diary.Īmong the dead lions was 17-year old female Bibi, who had become something of a celebrity during the TV series’ long and hugely popular run from 1996 to 2008. Local cattle-herders frequently bring their animals into the Masai Mara reserve to graze. He said the lions had attacked the herdsmen’s cattle when they entered the game reserve in western Kenya on Sunday. Moses Kuyioni, a local wildlife official, said the men are suspected of poisoning meat which they set up for the lions to eat.
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