How do you know he saw the collar? Take a look at post #9. Is it possible that he didn’t notice because of the mane, tall grass and the fear/excitement of stalking this animal as close as he had too for a shot?
He didn’t know because it was under the cover of darkness. According to the guide it was only when they returned the next day that the hunters saw it was wearing a GPS collar and was protected as part of an Oxford University research project.
“I was devastated,” said Bronkhorst. “I could not have seen the collar at night. We would never shoot a collared animal. I was devastated, and so was the client, we were both upset, and I panicked and took it [the collar] off and put it in a tree.”
Despite their error, the hunters then skinned and beheaded the lion – “as the client had paid for the trophy” – and returned to Bronkhorst’s base at Hwange.
It was then that the Minnesota dentist asked if Bronkhorst could find him an elephant.
“How do you know he saw the collar? Take a look at post #9. Is it possible that he didn’t notice because of the mane, tall grass and the fear/excitement of stalking this animal as close as he had too for a shot?”
I’d like to see the collar by itself to help answer that question.
Do we knew *when* he found out the lion was collared?