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North-East / Central / Equatorial African lions
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North-East / Central / Equatorial African lions
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 (02-14-2019, 01:35 PM)Lycaon Wrote: A group of lions in chad not in zakouma national park. Africa north of the Equator, more precisely, but not as far as say Libya, which is located to the north of Chad. If these Central African lions did migrate that far, then applying the name "North African lion" to their Barbary relative would become trickier. 
Pdf detaling the situation in dinder/alatish area
https://www.wildcru.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Alatash_Dinder_2017_Report.pdf
This is a tale of dominance and subversion. Of the two males we'd seen before, probably brothers and aged about 3 years, only one was present, asleep in the long grass some distance away (and I'll call him Older Male/ OM). A younger male, around 18 months old (and referred to here as YM) was feeding on the carcass. Shortly after we arrived YM stopped feeding and, with a very full belly, walked leisurely past our vehicle and lay down about ten metres behind us.
Source/credits : http://safaritalk.net/topic/18456-zakouma-np-chad-6-15th-february-2018/?page=3  *This image is copyright of its original author After a few minutes OM stirred from his snooze and, although some distance away, spotted YM who was directly in his sightline. Immediately OM was totally focused, stood up and started stalking. I hate to anthropomorphise, but that was one very cross and indignant lion!  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author As OM steadily approached, YM saw him. His expression can only be described as 'Oh s**t!'.  *This image is copyright of its original author And OM clearly meant business as he cut a direct path to the interloper, walking straight past us without even a glance in our direction.  *This image is copyright of its original author Suddenly there was snarling, yelping and dust flying up everywhere.  *This image is copyright of its original author YM adopted submissive body language with much whimpering and yelping. OM stalked off leaving the youngster utterly defeated and lying in his own mess (and we were close enough for it to be rather pongy!).  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author OM walked past us and up to the kill, standing there for a moment as if to assert his ownership before he strolled over to a shady tree full of vultures, lay down and, after looking around, went to sleep.  *This image is copyright of its original author We thought that was that and expected YM to at least stay put or even slink off in ignominious defeat. But once it was clear that OM was sleeping, he snuck back towards the carcass, a few little steps and stop, a few more steps and hunch down. I could almost hear the theme music of the Pink Panther accompanying him.  *This image is copyright of its original author He had a good look round and started to feed and then, obviously feeling more confident, or perhaps greed outweighed caution, he put his head into the stomach cavity and got stuck in.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author We left them all in peace, really chuffed to have witnessed this little drama.
Susan McConnell
A male in south sudan  *This image is copyright of its original author
A good looking zakouma lion
Credits : inyathi  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Beasty zakouma lion.
Source/credits : http://www.safaritalk.net/topic/19582-even-a-better-sequel-a-pictorial-zakouma-tr/  *This image is copyright of its original author
Forward from (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-gorilla...8#pid81578), I wonder which part of Central Africa this brutal draw between a lion and gorilla took place in the 19th century: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspa...00226.2.13
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Doug Macdonald's Safaris to Africa
The lions resident in the Nomade area killed a giraffe bull while we were there so we managed to watch for a few days the arrival and departure of various lions. This young female is heavily pregnant so no doubt there should be some little cubs to see in a couple of months time.  *This image is copyright of its original author One of the brothers that were responsible for killing the male giraffe not far from camp. These lions are not as big and their face seems different compared to an East African lion.  *This image is copyright of its original author
(05-19-2019, 12:58 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Doug Macdonald's Safaris to Africa Is this in Zakouma? |
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