Footage showing as many as 20 lions sipping from a South African river in near-perfect order apparently is worth a second look.
The accompanying footage, featured recently on the Latest Sightings – Greater Kruger Facebook page, has garnered more than 16 million views.
The lions, like bar patrons waltzing in for Happy Hour, descend the bank one by one and line up at water’s edge until the videographer says, “I can’t even fit them on my phone.”
The lions keep coming and soon the only sound is their collective slurping.
It turns out to be at least the second time Latest Sightings has shared the footage.
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FTW Outdoors featured the same event in July 2020, shortly after Nadav Ossendryver, founder and CEO of Latest Sightings, captured the footage at the Sand River inside the Mala Mala Private Game Reserve.
A spokesman for Latest Sightings told FTW Outdoors this week that the footage also was featured in a TV show, “Safari Sightings.” The show is available on the People’s Weather channel on DSTV.
Mala Mala is within the Sabi Sand Game Reserve and part of the Greater Kruger National Park ecosystem. Ossendryver and his crew watched elephants drink from the river before the lions began to appear.
