8th September 2010
Summer

Climate: - Trees and grass very green. Very hot and humid

Game Drives: - Lots of young animals and birds. Long grass cover limits visability

Lion

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A young male lion yawning after a twelve hour nap

Two lioness sisters hunting in early morning sunlight

An adult male sleeping during midday nap

Lions do not like water and during rainy days they prefer open areas with no grass to avoid getting wet

To young sisters drinking after a kill

An Eight year old male watching the vultures

Cubs learning to drink as part of their weaning process

The front paws af a lion are more often used in fighting and killing than the back paws

Yawning can be a display of dominance

Streching and scratching bark is part of proclaiming a males teritory

Lions have to maticulasly clean themselves of external parisites

Lioness hunting with cubs

A individual female can be recognised by her facial expression

individual males are caractarised by mane development

a Lions toungue is very rough like sand paper in order to keep itself clean

Most of their hunting is done at night

Lion will almost always strech after they have slept

Two sisters sniffing the early mornig breeze for any potential pray

Lions spend up to 18Hours per day sleeping

A late night close up of one of the Black Dam pride males.

A young lion feeding on a giraffe carcass killed close to Camp.

Lion reflection of the Black Dam pride sleeping at the waters edge after a kill.

An early evening image showing the Game Drive vehicle spotlight from the left.

This image was not taken on Tangala but on a neighboring consesion. This image merely shows a comparison between different pride males.

 

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