![]() “I’ve spent years there and I’ve not seen half of the things that show up on these camera photos,” said Alexandra Swanson, a researcher on the project. For four years, they continuously monitored wildlife across 430 square miles of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, offering a candid glimpse of just how grisly the grasslands can be. This is just one of many telling sequences captured by 225 camera traps set up by researchers from the University of Minnesota Lion Project. Throughout the night, wild jackals pick at the scraps. One hyena emerges from the feeding frenzy with a dismembered zebra leg clenched in its mouth. Then after the two have their fill, a cackle of hyenas devours the carcass. A second lioness comes into view and joins in ripping the zebra apart. ![]() Unbeknownst to the feasting feline, its killing blow triggers a motion-activated camera, which films the feast frame by frame. A lioness sinks its teeth into a zebra’s throat somewhere on the Serengeti plains, just a few hours before midnight. ![]()
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