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Lion vs. GoPro camera

Xeni Jardin at 10:35 am Fri, Jan 25, 2013

Photographer Chris Bray explains:

After my clients had finished photographing this adolescent male lion in Kenya beside the road, I taped a GoPro Hero 2 onto a $60 radio controlled car, and drove it slowly towards the lion. As soon as the lion saw it, it locked right onto it and paced towards it, came right up to it, gave it a few paw swipes (claws in, so only curious), and then started to maul it, at which point I drove the RC car forwards and backwards in the hope the lion would let it go rather than either destroy it or run away with it.

More here (via Storyful).

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Festus

This is profoundly unethical. Local guides in Kenya’s national parks work really hard to avoid messing with wildlife. This guy really blew it. Lets not honor this kind of harm to wildlife, anymore than we should honor people who drive their boats up next to whales or shoot raptors.
- http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski
  
  Yeah, the lions seemed really scared… e_e
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    There’s this idea that you want to avoid human-lion interactions so that lions ignore humans (which they mostly do) when they’re driving. If lions start perceiving humans as either a threat or dinner, that’s a problem.
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Great job, Go-Pro marketing department. You just made some PR person’s day.
Lexicat

Kenya believe it?!
compfeznetau

Was that it?