Zimbabwean farmer escapes lion's jaws He and four villagers had gone looking for the animal, in Matabeleland North near Zimbabwe's celebrated Hwange National Park, on Tuesday after she killed five of his cows in just one night and one the following day. It then came on top of me. I looked at it straight into its eyes too. It just stood there looking at me. To his surprise, the animal then walked away to check on its cub. But moments later, it approached him for a second time. "At that time, it started biting me on both my arms," he said. He fainted and awoke to find the animal gone. I don't know what happened. It just left me lying down and went away," he said. Now recovering in hospital in Bulawayo, Mr Ngwenya called for better controls on Zimbabwe's wild lion population. "I would like to urge relevant authorities to do something about these lions because our lives are in great danger," he said.