The wild dogs chasing it lost it, then we lost them, then we found them again, as they broke into a clearing where a splintered line of lions, six or seven of them, quietly watched a water hole. The dying sun was caught in the dust of zebras, which had left the water andheaded toward the safety of landscape thickened by lifeless wood. The first sound we heard was terror. One of the lions that had run through the wood had a zebra by the throat. Then another lion came, and another, and another.
Lions are inefficient killers.
The lions took more than 10 minutes to kill the zebra. Bruce's radio squawked. The impala was dead in seconds. Eight minutes later, the staff member made another announcement about the impala. The dogs had killed and disposed of the impala in less time than it took the lions to kill the zebra.