What followed was five minutes of terror as Gotz fought the starving predator on its last legs. (Image: Botswana Wild Bird Trust) (Image: Botswana Wild Bird Trust)“The lion jumped a bit but was it was so hungry and so desperate and this was its last chance at a kill to feed or it would die so it restarted its attack and began trying to eat Gotz again. (Image: Botswana Wild Bird Trust)(Image: Botswana Wild Bird Trust)"This was not normal lion behaviour but it had no other option to try and stay alive." “I heard Rainer shouting 'it’s a lion' and I tried to back into a corner of my tent and tried to push the lion away with my sleeping bag but it was determined to attack me. The researcher has slept out in the wilds of Africa in his two-man tent over 500 times and has been the subject to lion attention before.

Source: Daily Mirror December 23, 2020 11:30 UTC