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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Lion Cubs from South Luangwa National Park, Zambia - warning: Blood | |
Last month, I was on safari in the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. We stayed at the Shenton Safaris Kaingo and Mwambe camps (http://www.kaingo.com) and at Flatdogs Camp.
Whilst on a morning drive from Mwambe Camp, five lion cubs spotted our vehicle and came out to investigate. Their mother had left them in the bush whilst she hunted, but the cubs must have become rather bored.
They were 4-5months of age and came out to pose for us on a fallen tree for about an hour. Then their mother returned from her hunt and called the cubs away to feast. We eventually found them and the cute little pussy cats had rather lost their cuteness!
Their mother had killed an adult male warthog (about 70-80kg in size) and the cubs were alternating between nursing on the lioness and feasting on the warthog's soft tissues. They were too young to eat its muscles, so the lioness had kindly sliced open its belly so that they could eat.
As I could only upload four photos per post, the graphic ones are linked to in the next post.
I took nearly a thousand photos on that game drive. Here are just a small selection.
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First cub to find us
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Posing on the tree
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More posing
Edited on Aug 15, 2012 at 05:16 AM · View previous versions
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