Tree Climbing Lions
It’s a special and rare scene but worth your time spent here, finding these predators who choose change their life style with maybe the changing world. The allegations of seeing the tree climbing lions in southe Africa and in Tanzania around lake Manyara is different here.
Tree climbing Lions at Ishash sector south of Queen Elizabeth National Park are not in tales, rather are the allegation is real. In seated in your 4×4 tour vehicle is very possible sighting these predators adoring their leisure in tree branches. Though I ever witnessed this at Murchison falls national park which had never happened and no hope of seeing the same happening maybe.
The literature is only and currently evident at Queen Elizabeth national park and at the neighboring Tanzania’s Lake Manyala national park where tree rambling king of the jungle spotted lazily hanging out in the tree branches and also get into deep asleep in air.
The Ishasha section of Queen Elizabeth national park in the southern region of the park is prime of this amazing encounter. Here lions have adopted a new lifestyle of spending their leisure, in a relaxed mood by climbing to the top of the tree.
Reasons why lions at Ishasha sector have adopted to climbing trees are not well established but there are thought of reasons which maybe force these pride to spend most of their free time up in the tree branches, are detailed.
Running away from the moist grounds especially during the rainy seasons, also in the rainy season the grounds get crawling with the breeding tsetse flies that bite and disturb the liberty of other wildlife reserves lions inclusive. Such troubles cause lions to run for protection within the tree branches.
Absconding heat on the ground, this happens during shining seasons when temperatures tend to hike to over 30 0C. This heat makes the ground extremely hot for the cats. Fortunately, they find places to cool off from there hunt in the tree branches.
Looking for a panoramic view for prey in the wider range is also thought of being another reasons of seeing lions relaxed under tree branches.
The wider Queen Elizabeth national park contains a rich flora and fauna, together with the beautiful landscape composed of craters and water bodies. Due to wider coverage of acacia trees and sycamore fig trees with wider tree branches at the Ishasha sector, climbing lions love the wide branched trees as such of ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth national park. The sycamore fig trees and acacia trees are wide enough availing discreet and relaxed wide place for the lions.
Special secret about the Sycamore Fig trees, because of their thickness they offer plentiful shelter to the lions more so in periods of very hot and the rainy seasons. As you can questioning why these lions are choosing to behave in this way? However the locals suggest it’s the cultural of these lions to climb trees.
Queen Elizabeth national park is rich in fauna ranging from the candlestick thorns, humid rain forests to the Savannah vegetation which favors most wildlife like the Ugandan kobs, antelopes, warthogs and many more animals seen roaming on the ishasha sector, kasenyi plains, kazinga channel, lakes and around every area of the park including the chimpanzees at kyambura George and other primates
It’s amazing and maybe a lifetime experience finding these unique lions on trees, and taking enough photographs rewards with the finest experience ever seeing the jungle masters back home as they lazily lie in the tree branches or when catching their prey.
At Ishasha sector Queen elizabteth national park one can sight a pride of over 20 lions sleeping in the trees. Sometimes here it’s possible to spot the tree climbing leopards where you can assertively confirm the unique characteristic of the big cats of ishasha sector Queen Elizabeth national park- Uganda9.
The safari to hung out with these lazily relaxed tree climbing big cats can be done along your gorilla adventure to or from Bwindi impenetrable national park.
