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Lions Eat Poacher Leaving Only His Head At South Africa Park

By Ashish Ranjan, 21 February 2018

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Poaching is a common practice all over the world. Poachers head to forests in the quest of poaching animals. They do it for many reasons. Many people do it for fun while there are many others who do it because it is their profession. There is a forest region in South Africa which is primarily known for Rhino poaching. But, a recently a man was found dead in an area which was considered as lion territory.

1Lions were successful in eating the poacher

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Animal poachers are people who are adept at illegally poisoning the animals and then catching them. They take important body parts of the animals after poisoning them. But, as it turned out, the opposite happened as the animal was successful was eating the poacher. The incident took place at the private game park in South Africa.

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2 The man was in search of the lions

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The man was in search of the lions when the pride of lions actually attacked the poacher suddenly. He was then mauled to death by the pride of lions. The incident happened in the province of Limpopo during the weekend of Feb 10, 2018.

The man was in search of the lions

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3 The group of lions killed the poacher at the Kruger National Park

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The group of lions actually attacked and killed the poacher at the Kruger National Park at the Hoedspruit private game park. The lions ate most of the body parts of the poacher and only left the head of him.

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4 Local authorities found that the eaten man was a poacher

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As per Moatshe Ngoepe who is a local police spokesman, the authorities were initially of the view that dead man must be a local park employee who was also a tractor driver. The park employee went missing few days back. But, then, that park employee was found alive later on. Then, it was ascertained that the man was a poacher.

an was a poacher.

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