Wild Life Week: Why Would a Researcher Pull a Lion’s Tail?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Producer Abbey Perrault takes a trip into the Kenyan savanna, where she meets researchers who are studying how people share space with unlikely neighbors: lions. Along the way, she learns why a researcher would possibly pull the tail of a lion, and gets *extremely* up close and personal with two massive lionesses.

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0:00.0	Dylan here welcoming you to day four of Wildlife Week. So we're going to play the show in just a second. It is a banger of a show today.
0:09.0	But I have a quick request first. The reason we're doing this whole thing this week is we have a new
0:13.9	book coming out called wildlife. It's packed with just stories of this strange
0:21.6	alien world.
0:23.3	It is dazzling, it is occasionally unnerving.
0:27.1	I can really say that I think this is the best book
0:30.0	we have ever written.
0:31.7	So I have a favor to ask.
0:34.0	Go pre-order a copy.
0:35.1	It makes a huge difference in terms of getting stocked
0:38.6	in your local indie bookstore, in showing up
0:41.6	on lists of exciting books coming out.
0:45.0	So please go pre-order a copy.
0:47.7	And if you do today, limited time offer,
0:51.1	you can get a free luggage tag.
0:52.9	It is awesome, it is well made,
0:54.8	it has a cute little chameleon on it.
0:57.0	So we will put a link to pre-order in the episode description.
1:00.6	Thank you and on to today's episode.
1:03.0	Okay, so there are two guys who are now hooking a speaker onto this tree where the half of a dead horse is hanging.
1:26.8	We're in the middle of the savanna.
1:29.5	Three cars are parked in knee high grass.
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