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Lion Family 7

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Published: Nov 22, 2015

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Description

The Leopard and the LionsJust South of the Lemala Camp, in the central Serengeti, stands a solitary statuesque sausage tree (Kigelia africana) http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/plants-fungi/kigelia-africana-sausage-tree Rising to 15 meters, with its convoluted branches covered in dense foliage and with its large sausage-shaped fruits hanging ripe to fall, this tree casts a wide shadow over a dry gulch of an ephemeral river that floods the land in the rainy season. Parched land covered in long but dessicated grass lies all around, an occasional thorn bush breaking the local monotony. This is where we found the lions that morning. I say "we" found the lions, rather our amazing guide/driver Alfred the Great, he of the lucky belt (more of which in a later Feature) had found the lions after a careful study of tracks and patches of flattened grass. Standing up in the Land Cruiser, scouring the landscape, my wife and I saw nothing until Alfred whispered, "There, in the gulch - a paw!" Carefully manoeu

Image size

1000x714px 924.21 KB

Make

Canon

Model

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

Shutter Speed

1/1000 second

Aperture

F/5.6

Focal Length

400 mm

ISO Speed

200

Date Taken

Oct 31, 2015, 8:28:08 AM

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I like how the sun is cast in the mother's face and eye in this one.

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