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08-11-2016, 09:04 PM( This post was last modified: 08-11-2016, 09:15 PM by Tshokwane )
First and foremost, I have to warn you that this is bloody amazing.
Ignore the ridiculous "females showing the males who's boss" of the driver. Women love to believe in their own fantasies and go from being overprotective, to the gu gu-ga ga voice they reserve for the kids(or cubs in this case) and then to trying to make us men/lions to behave, as if that is going to happen sometime in their life time...
Rather, I want you to concentrate on the action between the males. At first is not clear what's happening, but I think it's a simple case of one of the females being in oestrus and two of the males showing interest in her, with one of them guarding her. Another one gets in the action as well, but I think the 1 vs 1 fight of later is between males #3 and #4, with #3 being the one that wins. I'm asking around in the groups to know who's the third male.
For all that lions look good in pictures, I think this is were is the beauty of them. To see their huge, muscled bodies moving at such speed and, at the same time, how quickly their interests change, turning against one another when their cause is no longer the case, as it happens with #3 and #4 fighting each other after attacking together the third male.