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Lions in South-Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia

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Lions in South-Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia

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#166
03-17-2020, 09:58 PM

" Beautiful pride on Tshwene drive this morning "


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#167
03-19-2020, 11:22 AM

Marlon du Toit: " What a sight. Incredible experience being so close to these magnificent cats - observing natural behaviour from only a few feet away.If you’ve not been to Africa - it’ll change your life & leave you with memories not easily forgotten. "


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#168
03-20-2020, 05:26 PM

" Big and beautiful boy from Pilanesberg ?"


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03-20-2020, 10:23 PM

(03-19-2020, 11:22 AM)Spalea Wrote: Marlon du Toit: " What a sight. Incredible experience being so close to these magnificent cats - observing natural behaviour from only a few feet away.If you’ve not been to Africa - it’ll change your life & leave you with memories not easily forgotten. "



That's in Zambia, not Zimbabwe. See my new thread for lions in Southeast Africa (including Zambia).
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#170
03-26-2020, 12:31 PM

Marlon du Toit: " A true Mana lion steps out from amidst an eroded plain, fire in his eyes & ready to meet us head on.

Lions in the Kanga Camp region on Mana Pools are not always the friendliest or most accepting, and to see this in person is captivating.
Lion across Africa have habituated to vehicles in such a way that they don’t even twitch an ear when a game viewer starts up.
These more “wild” Mana lions are different. They pay attention & you can see it in their eyes. "


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#171
03-26-2020, 01:55 PM

Resting, mating, patroling, the daily life of a pride...





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#172
03-27-2020, 04:11 AM

Impressive male from Namibia


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03-27-2020, 10:44 PM ( This post was last modified: 03-27-2020, 10:51 PM by BorneanTiger )

(08-26-2019, 11:11 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(08-25-2019, 06:21 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Cape Lion in the Hagenbeck zoo 


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Source: https://www.zootierliste.de/?klasse=1&ordnung=115&familie=11508&art=50902723

Interesting, because as I mentioned here, Hagenbeck Zoo in Germany had a Caspian tigress from Iran in the 20th century, expressing my disappointment about zoos apparently having say Barbary and Cape lions, or at least their descendants, but not Caspian tigers. Upon further research, I discovered that Hagenbeck Zoo was founded by a man of the same name who imported exotic animals (like his father Carl Hagenbeck Senior), including Barbary, Nubian, Cape and Senegal lions (previously used to refer to regular lions of Sub-Saharan Africa), besides Amur, Bengal, Indochinese and Sumatran tigers.

Hagenbeck Zoo in 1904: https://mohistory.org/collections/item/resource:148744

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By the way, I came across this book that speaks of 3 varieties of lions, the Bengal lion (Asiatic lion), the Cape lion, and the Barbary lion, and it mentions that the Bengal lion had a more extensive mane than the Cape lion, though the Cape lion was bigger than both the Asiatic lion and other African lions!

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Having gotten more information for the Cape lion, I am planning to shift this, or most of this, to the new thread, to make things simpler: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-cape-li...anochaitus
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#174
03-30-2020, 01:23 AM

Profile of a male lion's head...


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03-30-2020, 08:54 PM

https://www.wild-eye.com/2020/03/17/when-lion-cubs-meet-a-leopard-tortoise-in-hwange-national-park/
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04-02-2020, 11:42 AM

Matt Yardley: " What faith looks like... "


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04-02-2020, 08:54 PM

Peet Strydom: " Definitely not practicing social distancing. "


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04-04-2020, 11:41 PM



Jacques Schutte: " Throwback to early morning in Kgalagadi "

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04-10-2020, 02:37 PM

Jacques Schutte: " Nossob Male Lion early Morning on his patrol "


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#180
04-15-2020, 12:05 PM

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