{"id":526535,"date":"2026-04-12T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526535\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:19:08","slug":"i-was-chased-by-the-lions-of-longleat-safari-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526535\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was chased by the lions of Longleat Safari Park&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lions are tactical hunters. In the wild, the dark markings on the backs of their ears and the tips of their tails help the pride track each other during a chase. Light fur around their eyes reflects any available light, helping them hunt at dawn and dusk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The females do most of the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I personally think that when the mum has cubs, she designs the hormones that she produces to create what she thinks the pride needs to become the best hunting group,&#8221; said Elo\u00efse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Our clattering feed wagon, travelling at 25mph, is treated as the next kill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fifteen-year-old Nala is the first to chase, as the others hang back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s caught up with us and is starting to cut us off, to try and whip us away and then push us into two other lions,&#8221; Elo\u00efse said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions are tactical hunters. In the wild, the dark markings on the backs of their ears and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-526535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}