Sunday, August 14, 2005
In Which Elizabeth Is Bitten By A Lion And Lives To Tell
And we even have it on video.
We took a break from hunting, and Judy took us to Mama Tau, a white lion rescue and breeding project.
At Mama Tau, we were met by Beverly. She introduced us to Chance, an orphaned white lion cub who was still being bottle-fed. Elizabeth was thrilled when Beverly asked is she would like to sit and hold him. Chance crawled all over Elizabeth, and mouthed her much as a puppy will. We took a bazillion pictures as Elizabeth and then Judy took turns holding the cub.
After a lot of that, Elizabeth finally got a little bit more of a nip, but nothing that made her stop playing with the animal. On the way out, I asked her to show me her lion bite. She had to think hard to remember which was the lion nip, and which were the marks from all the thorns in the bushveldt.
Bitten by a lion, and lived to tell.
