[Tweaker]

I'm not sure where you find lions in the Congo, but it is a fact that Baboons attack and sometimes kill Leopards. Not for food but to protect their young.

[dufekin]

Answered. See post #72.

There are three subspecies of lion in the Democratic Republic. One lives on the savannas of Katanga around Lubumbashi in the south. Another lives in the African Rift Valley, including the far eastern Congo. The subspecies of lion involved in this story lives in the far north of Orientale province (eastern Congo), along the frontier with the Central African Republic (roughly 4 °N).

Lions do not live in the dense tropical rain forests and jungles of equatorial Congo because the extensive vegetation impedes the movement of the lion necessary for hunting. But these rain forests are constrained fairly tightly around the Equator; not all of the Congo is as swampy as Kisangani.

Much of the Congo has a significant winter dry season typical of continental climates, even a few degrees latitude removed from the Equator. These areas do not support rain forests, which require an ample year-round supply of moisture. Tropical savannas, mixing forested areas with significant grasslands, instead occur in these wet-season/dry-season climates. Lions and their prey can roam such savannas with ease. Much of Africa has this type of climate.