Explorer Nigel Thornberry Killed By Lions In Serengeti

WORLD FAMOUS and celebrated naturalist Nigel Thornberry has died aged 74 after being savaged by a pride of lions while on an excursion to the Serengeti in Tanzania.

Thornberry, knighted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in the early 2000s, came to prominence with the TV show ‘Nigel Thornberry’s Animal World’ and it was indeed the animal world which brought about his untimely death.

“Ah as odd as it sounds it’s how he would have wanted to go; torn limb from limb by these majestic creatures. Although, his final word still haunts me… ‘Smashing’ he said as a lioness bore her teeth and dug into his flesh,” Thornberry’s widow Lady Marianne Hunter-Thornberry told WWN.

It is believed Thornberry was coming to the aid of his now adult daughter Debbie, who had, for a second time in her life driven into a muddy gorge imperilling herself as she became trapped in a pride of lion’s territory.

The news has sent shockwaves through the nature loving world with many famous names leading the tributes.

“We’ve lost a titan of the animal kingdom,” Sir David Attenborough said of his protege.

“That man taught me how to drink my own piss when isolated out in the wild,” an emotional Bear Grylls said in an Instagram post mourning Thornberry.

In recent years, Thornberry came under criticism by fellow naturalists for stealing a child in the late 90s, known as Donnie Thornberry, from a family of orangutans.

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