[Sharon]

A wounded lion almost had her leg ripped off when a male buffalo gored her. Emergency vets scrambled to the middle of the Masai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya when they heard about Siena's life threatening injuries.

Staff at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust - a specialist elephant rehabilitation centre - had to act quickly if they were to save the lioness on April 4th, 2014.

A vet from the Kenyan Wildlife Trust was flown from Nairobi to the nature reserve where the injured lioness stood with her cubs and was treated on site.

[Tantrix]

Good job by the vet...disinfect the wound, suture it up, and apply a barrier to prevent future infection. The buffalo in question was the Cape Buffalo, and this lion(ess) is lucky to even be alive. Cape Buffalo can kill just about anything in Africa, and actually kill more people than crocodiles.

[GODREKR]

I posted this on my blog but never posted it here because I was unsure if it would get me banned.


Lioness gored by buffalo horn lives to see another day

Written by: Patrick Reynolds

Lioness Siena from the Marsh Pride of lions in the Masai Mara was badly injured on her left lower flank by a buffalo horn. Siena has three tiny cubs so the lives of four individual lions were at stake. The wound was deep with the skin sheath being fleeced but no perforations to the stomach wall or any bone dislocation.





Governors Camp driver guides found her with the injury in the early morning and immediately alerted the rangers, we also made contact with the David Sheldrick Wildlife foundation that mobilised the vet in Nairobi and arranged a plane to fly the vet to the Mara. The veterinarian Dr Njoroge from the Kenya Wildlife service’s landed at Musiara airstrip at lunchtime and Governors guides drove the medical team directly to where Siena was resting. Treatment started in the afternoon when she was darted. Moments later a sub-adult lioness promptly sauntered up to Siena who was still standing while the drug was taking effect and pulled the dart out of her with her teeth. Siena was treated and stitched effectively which took approximately 1½ hours.

















48 hours later we found Siena 2 kms on from were she had been treated and she was doing remarkably well, she was walking with her cubs and also squatting to pee; all good signs, we only hope that she continues to improve.





Sincere thanks to the effective response from the The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the medical team from the Kenya Wildlife services, and the assistance of the Narok County Council and Governors’ camp staff. Without intervention it is certain that Siena would not have survived this injury and her cubs would also have been in jeopardy.

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[khantko]

that is incredibly lean meat, i couldn't see any yellow bits of fat

[dwizzy22]

mmm lovely story how ever im sure the buffalo was acting in self defence

[kellyhound]

good job by the vet

[Phatality]

Originally Posted by dwizzy22 ↗

mmm lovely story how ever im sure the buffalo was acting in self defence

Nah, he was a pretentious prick.

[vicksvaporub]

[CuriousCanadian]

Did they get any Ebola in there, that's what Id be wondering