“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?
According to the guide, at 9 the next morning when they returned “...and we found it and it was wounded, and the client then shot it, with his bow and arrow, and killed it.”
It was then the hunters went over to it, and saw it had a collar.
“I was devastated,” said Mr Bronkhorst, who immediately saw that he had killed a protected lion.
“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 off and put it in a tree.
They’re about the size of shock collars for dogs if the pictures online are accurate.