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There's chitter-chatter in Carleton Place, Ont., about an aggressive squirrel running at residents and, occasionally, taking a nip.

Last week I wrote about a fable and its moral — that gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail. But this week I decided to relate a true story that has no moral nor even an underlying message. It’s simply a fascinating tale about Kenya and the African bush that I wanted to share on the fifth anniversary of the day it occurred. My wife Bobbi and I were on an early evening game drive with our Masai guide Ping who told us he wanted to track the Enkoyeni lion pride; a pride composed of two huge males, eight lionesses and 10 sub-adults. The pride hadn’t made a kill in ...