Lion patrol: Learning to share the savannah with big animals
(World News Science)

LOIBOR SIRET, Tanzania (AP) - Saitoti Petro scans a dirt road in northern Tanzania for recent signs of the top predator on the African savannah. `If you see a lion,` he warns, `stop and look it straight in the eyes - you must never run.` Petro points to a fresh track in the dirt, a paw print measuring nearly the length of a ballpoint pen. He walks along a few more yards reading tracks the way an archaeologist might decipher hieroglyphics, gleaning meaning from the smudges in the dust. A large male passed here within the past two hours, he says. `Here he`s walking slowly, then you see his claws come out in the tracks. Perhaps he`s running after prey, or from something else.` The tall, slender...