Martial Artist attacked by lion

[MA-Caver]

I am not a professional trainer, but I trained a few dogs. One of those (mine) was really "mean" and hurt to tame. We had to find an agreement on that LOL...he does what I ask, but I leave him alone if he wants to be left alone. I have never had to do with lions and not sure I wanna try either.

First of all, place. All animal, pets or wild, are very territorial. That doesn't mean only they protect they territory, but they also feel confortable in it. A lion out of its place will be in the first place nervous even tho you can't tell by just looking at it. Notice how quickly he runs out when the door is opened, no need to force it that way. The lion knows that out of there he will be out of that foreign place and hopes to go back to his territory.

I don't know how far are dogs and lions behaviours. Dogs have two ways of being hostile, attacking and defending. Fortunately I have had to deal only with defensive ones and that means they actually they don't mean to bite you unless you force them. That lion dind't show neither one kind of aggression even tho it might look like it. Glad it was stopped, but had it gone along with what he was doing I doubt he would have hurt the woman (well, intentionally. Lion doesn't know his size and weight are enough to kill her). Putting the woman down is sign of dominance and I think the lione wanted to prove he was dominant.
Remember it was not his place so he needed to make that place his. His trainers were no threat to him and the photographer was clam and quiet. The woman was moving slowly back and forth and the lion might have seen a threat for the territorial ownership.

Of course I am no pro at all in this subject so I might be completely wrong.

I'm not a pro either but I do have a good understanding of predatory animals. Your observations are I feel closer to mine than any thus far. Mentioning territoriality is an important observation.
We talked about our own private space in terms of self defense. There are those who we would let in and those who we would prefer not to. Predatory animals, especially large ones I would imagine would feel the same. The woman probably wasn't "properly introduced" to the lion in the first place. Just showed up and started shooting pictures. Flashes of bright light directly in it's eyes and a strange (smelling) human(s) moving around and getting awfully close to it's comfort zone... definitely a recipe for disaster.
I don't get casual with a large dog until it has a scent of familiarity with me. Meaning that if the owner is about then I take pains to ensure that the owner introduces me to the dog and the dog sees that I am not a threat to it's "pack".
Thus could've also been a contributing factor with this animal.

Watching a special with a supermodel getting to know Bart the Bear (Grizzly Addams, The Bear, The Edge) was more of a behind the scenes and the handler had to be with the model closely for a period of time so that the bear was familiar with her.

Things to think about.

 

[masherdong]

Wow! Very lucky that she only suffered 4 broken ribs.

 

[jks9199]

Like others -- I wasn't impressed by the handling of the line throughout. It seemed like the handler wasn't keeping it in rein, and so it's not surprising he didn't keep it from attacking.

Don't know... I can see why the wanted the shots, but I think they needed to be sure that they had photographers used to working with the animals, and a good handler used to working with photographers.

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Well, I'm glad she wasn't hurt worse then she was. Now, personally it was stupid to do a photo shoot in the first place with a lion to demostrate and Martial Art and then get creamed by the lion.

Just my little view on it.

Ditto, very, very stupid!

 

[Brian R. VanCise]

Hello, Have you heard the story about "Goden Yamaguchi"..aka the CAT!

When he was in Manchura and a prisioner of the Japanese army...they threw him into a cage with a Lion....bare naked...he hit the lion on the nose and than choke the lion to death.

Hense the name "The CAT" plus his hair was like that of a lion!

A Goju Master and one of the first to emphaze free sparring over Kata's to develop fighing skills...very hard core lots of hard contact style.

Aloha

This is a tall story and in my opinion nothing more. A man in a cage with a lion equals a dead man or a lion play toy.

(if that is what the lion wants) Now if the man has a serious weapon and I do mean a serious weapon (think aka47 or something similar) they might live a little longer or inflict enough damage on the lion before they both die.

 

[jks9199]

This is a tall story and in my opinion nothing more. A man in a cage with a lion equals a dead man or a lion play toy.

(if that is what the lion wants) Now if the man has a serious weapon and I do mean a serious weapon (think aka47 or something similar) they might live a little longer or inflict enough damage on the lion before they both die.

And, I seem to recall reading somewhere that Gogen Yamaguchi was nicknamed "The Cat" for the way he moved, not killing a cat.

Which makes some more sense...