The lioness stumbled to her feet, shaky but standing. She looked at the waterhole, then at the bush where the snake had vanished, and finally, she turned her head toward us.
It wasn’t a glare. It was a long, steady gaze. Animals don’t have human gratitude, scientists say. But anyone who has spent time in the bush knows that’s a lie. “Did you see that?” Michael asked as we watched them limp away into the golden light. “The male. He never took his eyes off you.”
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I nodded. But it wasn’t until we reviewed the dash-cam footage back at the station that we realized what had actually happened during the chaos.
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