I think we can all agree that hunting rhinos is a bad idea, but at least two suspected poachers learned that the hard way earlier this week. In a showcase of nature’s brutality, the BBC reports rangers at the Shibuya game reserve in South Africa stumbled on a pretty gruesome find on Tuesday: the mangled remains of at least two humans. The perpetrators? A pride of lions.
According to the BBC the attack took place in the game reserve’s lion enclosure, presumably when the suspected poachers broke into the protected area late Sunday night. They came armed with a high-powered rifle and an ax, seemingly with the intent of killing rhinos and removing their horns to sell on the black market, according to a press release shared on the reserve’s Facebook page. But after encountering a pride of six lions, their weapons weren’t much help. Some, if not all of the intruders, met their demise.