How nice - they had him over for dinner!

It's ok to poach an egg, but not a lion.

At least, that's the lesson that one poacher at a private game park in South Africa should have known, but he is no longer with us to share it.

Poachers are people who illegally poison or trap or kill animals in the wild to sell the animal (or parts of it) on the black market.

In the province of Limpopo (Northeastern South Africa), an apparent poacher made his last mistake by trying to get over on a pride of lions, only to see the tables turned rather violently.  Fatally, you might say. This was near Kruger National Park at the Hoedspruit private game park. The lions killed the man; they feasted on him, in fact.

Another fact is that the predominant poaching problem in that area is "hunters" going after rhinoceroses. And the park personnel at first thought the victim was a missing park employee, but that guy turned up ok, so, no, according to Moatshe Ngoepe, a local police spokesman.

“The process of identifying the deceased has already commenced, and it might be made possible by the fact that his head is amongst the remains that were found at the scene,” Ngoepe said.

That's right. The lions left that morsel behind. Don't tell me they don't know what they're doing.

You want to go to Africa and kill wildlife, that's on you, but don't look for sympathy when the hunter becomes the game.

They're always going to be a head of you, anyway.