Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #488559 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Ex Safari
This is an interesting subject but the book is not well written. Frump states that the killing of Mocambique refugees by lion in the Kruger National Park, has been going on for years and originally started and grew during the years of apartheid when a blind eye was turned. It gives a good spin to his book but I must say I doubt if this is true.

As I remember, there was an electric fence down the side of The Kruger, between Mocambique and South Africa to keep the animals in and the people of Mocambique out. After the elections of 1994, the electric fence was turned off.

No matter how racist the white South Africans were during the years of apartheid, I don't believe they would have allowed lion to eat human being in this way. They were too well organised and the lion would become very very dangerous and start hunting humans, whereas it is natural for lion to be afraid of humans.

Once a pride of lion tastes human flesh, it would be attracted to the areas where humans stayed within the park, which are not difficult for animals to enter.

Anyone knows that at night Hyena and other animals enter the living areas to raid the dust bins.

This is a new story and very sad for all that. That human beings are so poor they take these risks for a better life, and in the end there is nothing left of them.

One point he did make they seems to be original, is that we are always told the African Buffalo or the Hippo are the most dangerous animals in Africa. But how does anyone know? Lion and crocodile eat their victims and we cannot easily keep a record, so as he points out, the numbers are far greater than the tally suggests.