Originally Posted by
DrWilly
My friends who visited Botswana for a few nights and stayed in tents heard lions in the evening and had footprints surrounding their tents in the morning. The guides suggested that the lions assumed the tents looked like rocks so the occupants were safe... MrsKW replied no effing way!
you're right about early starts, they did see a leopard and it's location had been given away by a bunch of baboons who surrounded the small copse of trees and hooted loudly to let all the others know where the danger was.
or not... it is Africa.