“We know how to kill lions,” one young Maasai warrior said in Swahili during ... In Kenya and across Africa, poison is used to kill small creatures for food (the impact on human health is ...

For more on lions and other mammals of the African wild watch Mommy Wildest. Empaps (Meshack) Saiyalel is a guide at Porini Lion Camp in Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Kenya. He is a Maasai warrior.

Maasai warriors were expected to fight and kill a lion as part of a ritual centred around their transition to manhood. But after the number of large cats began plummeting in Africa ...