Drive a Toy Car With a Camera Into a Pride of Lions and Watch What Happens

What happens when a couple of wildlife conservationists get bored on the job in Africa and decide to put a camera on a remote control car? You're about to find out:

Image: Chris McLennan Photogra­phy

Lions have vanished from more than 80 percent of their historic range and are extinct in 26 countries, according to Panthera, a wildcat conservation group. Only 20,000 remain in the wild, down from a global population of 200,000 in the 1950s.

The apex predators are threatened by a range of factors, including habitat loss, scarcity of wild prey because of overhunting by humans, and retaliatory poisoning by herders and farmers after lions kill their livestock.

If the situation doesn’t change dramatically, some experts predict that lions could be extinct in the wild in 10 to 20 years.

Source: takepart.com