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Other male lion coalitions from Masai Mara

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I just try to (correctly) translate the #1277 post:


Et comment Scarface est devenu une légende… (Credits to Tony Crocetta).


En septembre 2011, lorsque Scarface et ses trois autres mousquetaires de frères ont déboulé du côté du marais de Musiara pour destituer Clawed et Roméo, alors les rois incontestés de la Marsh Pride (4 Mousquetaires eux même viré d’Ol Kiambo par la bande à Notch !) j’évitais soigneusement, crétin que j’étais, de pointer mon téléobjectif sur celui blessé à l’œil : ça faisait moche sur la photo !!!
Lorsque je compris ma stupide erreur, je me rattrapais bien volontiers à chaque nouvelle observation. J ai pu ainsi me constituer au fil du temps une photothèque richement illustrée du plus charismatique des lions du Masai-Mara.

La première photographie, celle de gauche, date d’octobre 2012, soit tout juste un an après son arrivée à Musiara. La dernière, vous la connaissez, date de quelques jours, elle fut prise près de Water Pump Serena, rive gauche de la mara fin janvier dernier. Remarquez la petite tache en bas à droite au niveau de l’iris, sous la pupille de l’œil encore valide du roi des rois.

Vous avez surement vu une fois dans votre vie le film culte « les 10 commandements de Cecil B Demille » : vous devez donc vous souvenir que Charlton Eston, alias Moïse, en touchant au sacré, se métamorphosa radicalement sur la fin de sa vie, avec notamment un chevelure rebelle devenue blanche…

C’est cette idée que j’ai souhaité partager avec vous, en comparant ces deux portraits séparés de plus de 5 ans… 
Même si pour tout vous dire, seigneur Scarface me fait davantage penser aujourd’hui à un dieu Rasta ! 
Ce n’est pas je crois un crime de lèse-majesté de le prétendre…

How Scarface became a legend...

September 2011, when Scarface and his three others musketeer brothers appeared into the Musiara swamp side in order to relieve Clawed and Romeo, the undisputed kings of the Marsh Pride at that time , (4 musketeers themselves sacked from Ol Kiambo by the Notch pride !) I carefully avoided, moron that I was, to point my telephoto lens at the one with the eye wounded: it was so awful on the photo !
When I understood my stupid mistake, I gladly stopped myself falling by catching at every new observation. So I was able to build up a richly illustrated Photo library about the most iconic Masai Mara lion.

The first photo, this one left, dates from October 2012, i.e. just one year after his arrival into Masai Mara. The last one, you know it, dates from a few days and was taken near the Water Pump Serena, left bank of the Mara river, last January. Notice the small stain right to the iris level, under the still fit king of kings's pupil.

You have certainly, once, seen the cult film from Cecil B. Demille "The ten commandments": You must remind Charlton Heston, alias Moses, by touching the sacral, was radically changed at the end of his life, notably with an unruly hairs that became white.

That is this idea I desired to share with you, by comparing these 2 portraits, separated by a more than five years period.
Even if, to say my whole opinion, Scarface reminds me more to a Rasta god !
This isn't , I believe so, a crime of lese-majesty to claim that.
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[email protected] - swtlei4u - 11-11-2017, 09:17 AM
RE: Other male lion coalitions from Masai Mara - Spalea - 02-07-2018, 01:48 AM
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