The savanna is a dangerous place: it has lions, buffalo and poachers. What scares animals the most in a South African national park?
Despite heavy poaching of rhinos, South Africa’s Kruger National Park is still a natural paradise. One of the largest remaining lion populations in Africa lives there. Yet there is something the local animals fear even more than the big cats.
“We compared fear of humans to fear of lions to see if humans are more feared than the big cats,” says conservation biologist Michael Clinchy, a co-author of the study. The study group found that animals were twice as likely to flee and vacated an area faster when they heard human voices than when they heard lions or gunshots. This was true for 95 percent of the animal species observed, including giraffes, leopards, hyenas, zebras, kudu, warthogs, impalas and rhinos. Only elephants were significantly more likely to run from lions than from humans.
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