Sleep should have come easy for Mike Roux after long days beating the bush, targeting what he hoped would be a trophy kudu or impala.

But how can you sleep knowing lions lurk in the darkness?

"Even though you're in a compound, you can hear them," said Roux, a professional hunter based in Quincy. "It will make the hair stand up on your neck. It's not the over-on-that-mountain roar. It's the 75-yards-on-the-other-side-of-that-fence low purr."

You don't move when you hear that.

"The shower is outside your room," Roux said. "So I am not showering at night. I am not leaving this place at night."

Not until the hunt is over.

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