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Lion charges at men filming video in South African park

By Ben Hooper
This would be a good time to leave. Screenshot: Newsflare
This would be a good time to leave. Screenshot: Newsflare

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KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A visitor to a South African park captured footage of a lion charging toward him after he interrupted the big cat's mating session.

The video shows the lion running toward a pair of men who were observing it Saturday at Kruger National Park.

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The lion, apparently satisfied with merely giving the men a scare, rolls off and walks away while the humans breathe sighs of relief.

The filmer said the lion was upset about an aborted mating session.

"The two lions were mating in the bush (you can see the lioness in the background very briefly) and we disturbed them, thus the mock charges and my jerk terrified reaction on filming!" the filmer wrote.

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