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Lion Creates Unique Video By Carrying Camera In Its Mouth (VIDEO)

First Posted: 06- 1-11 03:58 PM   |   Updated: 06- 1-11 05:50 PM

Camera theft is wrong, but we'll forgive the thief in this case: a lioness in South Africa's Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve carried off a camera that had been left to capture ambient footage and unwittingly created her own little piece of cinema vérité. Photographers Roger and Pat de la Harpe had set up cameras on a fence in the game reserve, hoping to get footage for their book In Search of the African Lion.

When the couple got their camera back, they found that the feline Fellini had documented a slice of her day: she approaches the camera with other lionesses, investigates her discovery, and holds it in her teeth as she travels across the plain. Watch the unique footage below:

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Camera theft is wrong, but we'll forgive the thief in this case: a lioness in South Africa's Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve carried off a camera that had been left to capture ambient footage and unwitti...
Camera theft is wrong, but we'll forgive the thief in this case: a lioness in South Africa's Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve carried off a camera that had been left to capture ambient footage and unwitti...
 
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Velvet Raindrops
21 minutes ago (5:39 AM)
She is such a cutie! Good job little girl!
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lioness39
Retired Animal and wildlife welfare director
10:53 AM on 6/02/2011
I see ya, sista! >--
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Stilyagi
It's fatal to be right when the world is wrong.
10:40 AM on 6/02/2011
I think the cub was moving the camera to a place where it couldn't be found, so she could later pawn it. Smart lion.
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p456
Walking Tall.
10:06 AM on 6/02/2011
I love lions they are some cool cats.
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Howie1960
You get what you vote for.
09:51 AM on 6/02/2011
Better than Heaven's Gate!
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Ann Mazzenga
09:15 AM on 6/02/2011
aweeeee cute it gives new meaning to have camera WILL TRAVEL HA HAH LOL
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Spiggy
If I can get you to think then I have succeeded.
09:13 AM on 6/02/2011
Well it definitely was not my cat carrying that camera....­.there would have been drool all over the place.
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Darwin48
08:29 AM on 6/02/2011
At least it's not Disney. As I was watching this, while it's really, really cool, I also though, this is what it would be like to be picked up, dragged away and eaten by lions and being awake the whole time.
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Spiggy
If I can get you to think then I have succeeded.
09:12 AM on 6/02/2011
Most of the times, Lions kill by going after the throat by instinct..­..I doubt very seriously that if you were alone and attacked by a lion you would be conscious for the ensuing kitty smorgasbor­d.
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rocknrollinhoneybadger
08:10 AM on 6/02/2011
Already way better than a Michael Bay production­.
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CarrieAntigua
17°07'N, 61°47'W
08:07 AM on 6/02/2011
This was wonderful!
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peacekitten
primum non nocere.
06:13 AM on 6/02/2011
ars gratia artis. she did it magnificen­tly.
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CarrieAntigua
17°07'N, 61°47'W
08:06 AM on 6/02/2011
She did indeed! So lovely to see you PK...
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DG3
05:07 AM on 6/02/2011
Her nod to Kurosawa is unmistakea­ble.
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kareemachan
Watashi ha jibun no tame ni to kangae te iru hito
11:22 AM on 6/02/2011
LOL!
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Mr Hoodoo
Card Carryin' Popeyeist
01:40 AM on 6/02/2011
Cats're cool. Big or small, they're just plain cool.

They're cool cats, man.
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McCorbin100107
01:21 AM on 6/02/2011
I find her work trite and pretentiou­s.
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Mr Hoodoo
Card Carryin' Popeyeist
01:42 AM on 6/02/2011
And yet there's that ephemeral element in it that just might make it a cult classic.

Or...not.
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peacekitten
primum non nocere.
06:11 AM on 6/02/2011
i dare you to say that to her face......­.
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Greg Bell
01:15 AM on 6/02/2011
Well, not the most scintillat­ing piece of cinemaogra­phy I've ever seen, but better than the Kardashian­s, or any of those housewives­, I suppose - Keep up the good work, kitty!
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peacekitten
primum non nocere.
06:11 AM on 6/02/2011
anything with pictures of such a majestic creature is a masterpiec­e......
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