WATCH | LIONESS STEALS PHOTOGRAPHER'S CAMERA & GIVES IT TO HER CUBS TO PLAY WITH

Wildlife photographers often have to face risks when shooting animals. They have to take care of not just themselves, but their belongings too.

In a funny incident, a cheeky lioness took things to a whole new level when she stole a photographer's camera after she accidently dropped it. Barbara Jensen Vorster accidently dropped her camera when she was shooting at the Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana. She was shooting with her Canon 7D and Canon 100-400mm lens - a camera setup worth over Rs.1,44,910. 

Luckily, Barbara had a spare camera to shoot the entire episode that ensued. Take a look

 

 

 

 

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#africaforever #canon #canonphotography #mashatu #c4 #janetkleyn #shemcompion #lions What happens if you have to many gadgets and you drop your Canon 7D with 100-400 on the ground at a lion sighting. There were cubs and she was not impressed with us. She approached and we had to reverse. She gently flipped the camera over and picked it up. She carried it for quite a way and the dropped it for the cubs to play with. We could retrieve the camera it is very dirty but appears to still work. It wrapped it in a Maasai shuka & will take it to Canon .... priceless experience

A post shared by Barbara Jensen Vorster (@barbara_joppel) on Jul 22, 2018 at 4:57am PDT

"As soon as one lioness heard the thud, she looked up, growled and approached the vehicle. We had to reverse without attempting to retrieve it," she said.

“The camera fell with the lens looking up, she gently flipped the camera on its side and picked it up by the barrel of the lens,” she added. The lioness picked up the camera, and gave it to her cubs for them to play with.

Barbara was later able to retrieve her camera. While the camera had teeth marks on its body, it was nevertheless functioning properly. The camera was “very dirty but appears to still work,” Vorster says. “There are two huge teeth marks on the rubber focus rings of the lens and small teeth marks on the plastic lens hood, both of which I decided not to replace.”