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Lions have no particular breeding season, and often synchronize breeding, especially after a pride takeover, raising the cubs communally. Male lions become sexually mature at around 26 months old, but unlikely to breed before the age of four or five, primarily due to a lack of opportunity until they are large enough at around this age to take over a pride and therefore its breeding rights. Now you know.....enjoy the rest of the day.(photo by D.Aruasa)
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Kalahari Lions can be considered the most beautiful Lions
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 (10-17-2017, 09:29 PM)vinodkumarn Wrote: Credits: Anthony Goldman Great pic! 
Image from The Photographer’s Guide to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park eBook
 *This image is copyright of its original author Mine! We left Mata Mata camp early one morning and came across a scene of carnage four wildebeest carcasses strewn across the sand dune with a pride of lions feeding on them. This male wasn't sharing with anyone and when we stopped to photograph him we got this pose before he dragged the carcass away and under a tree.
Credits: Grehard Skeenkamp Wildlife and Nature Photography
 *This image is copyright of its original author Goose step. The goose step is a special marching step performed on formal military parades and other ceremonies. While marching in parade formation, troops swing their legs in unison off the ground while keeping each leg straight and unbent. The step originated in Prussian military drill in the mid-18th century and was called the Stechschritt (literally, "piercing step") or Stechmarsch. German and Soviet military advisors spread the tradition throughout the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. The goose step is now used by the militaries of over seventy countries, comprising three-fifths of the world's population. The term "goose step" originally referred to a British military drill in which one leg at a time was swung back and forth without bending the knee.[1] Apparently, standing on only one leg reminded soldiers of how geese often stand. The term was later applied to the German stechschritt during World War I.[2][3] As a result, term has acquired a pejorative meaning in some English-speaking countries. (By Wikipedia) 
@vinodkumarn :
About #934: very interesting little historical reminder. For me the goose step was essentially associated to the german army during the second world war by the evocations of persons having just known the german occupation... What is the probability to see a couple of lions having similar mane doing so a perfect goose step ? Very low, I presume... Are the lions martial animals ? No !
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Photographer Wim van den Heever The REAL buffalo soldier! Stunning pictures capture the moment a mother trying to fend off a pride of lions attacking her calf is rescued when bull charges in and KILLS one of the predators Photographer Wim van den Heever describes how he watched the lions attempting to take down the cow a number of times, but that she was finally 'saved' by a bull from the herd. In a dramatic turn of events, a protective macho buffalo steps in, scaring the lions away and nearly mauling the injured lioness to death - saving the mother's life. Mr van den Heever said the lioness crawled out of the mud and died two days later. Wim, 43, said: 'The bull came and chased the female lions off the mother buffalo, trying to injure them. 'Luckily they escaped, but while he chases them he sees the injured female lion and really finishes her off, by mauling her and pushing her into the mud. I've never witnessed anything like this.'  *This image is copyright of its original author Pick your battles: An attacking buffalo headbutts a lioness during the fierce battle in a river delta in Botswana *This image is copyright of its original author Outnumbered: The female buffalo had stepped in to protect her calf from the hungry lionesses, but found herself under attack  *This image is copyright of its original author The lionesses had initially stalked and injured a buffalo calf in Okavango Delta in Botswana *This image is copyright of its original author The lionesses went after the calf and its mother as they grazed with the herd of buffalo *This image is copyright of its original author Two against one: After catching and injuring the young buffalo, the calf's mother came to its rescue *This image is copyright of its original author Bad move: Despite her heroic efforts to save her young one, the female buffalo soon found herself outnumbered as two lionesses attacked *This image is copyright of its original author Futile fight: The buffalo was attacked several times by the hungry lionesses before she was 'saved' *This image is copyright of its original author Struggle: One of the lionesses jumps into the back of the buffalo as other animals watch on *This image is copyright of its original author Saving grace: In a dramatic turn of events, a protective macho buffalo steps in, scaring the lions away from the female *This image is copyright of its original author Time to go: The lioness appears to realise that the tables have turned as she makes a run for it *This image is copyright of its original author Hit: The male buffalo charges at the lioness, mauling it with its horns, and dragging it in the mud *This image is copyright of its original author Ya filthy animal: One of the lionesses emerges from the water covered in mud and injuries *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
(10-24-2017, 02:37 PM)Fredymrt Wrote: Credits to Fascinating sequence of pictures depicting the struggle between "mortal enemies".
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This lion, with his distinctive dark mane and belly hair, was recently spotted on our Panthera camera traps. His name is Kalamas and he is well known to the KopeLion team and local community. Recently, some Maasai women told of meeting him at Mt Lemakarot where he was drinking from a spring - he lay quietly and allowed them to collect water undisturbed. Kalamas travels widely, appearing intermittently on camera traps on the Lake Eyasi escarpment, Ngorongoro Highlands, and Kakesio (in the very south of the NCA) since 2015. In November 2015 he was observed mating in the Ngorongoro Crater. Whilst the KopeLion team are very keen to collar him, Kalamas in the Maa language means 'the intelligent and tricky one', given for his ability to evade us!  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Gerhard Steenkamp.
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Photo Credits Anton Geyser Photography
"Once you become fearless, life becomes limitless."  *This image is copyright of its original author
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