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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A male lion guarding a lioness who is coming in to season so he can mate with her and prevent other males from approaching. Dawn with red oat grass.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Two male lions alert to the movements of female members of their pride. Late evening in the rain.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Two pride males watching the lionesses in their pride setting off to hunt after a heavy rain storm.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Two pride males watching the lionesses in their pride setting off to hunt after a heavy rain storm.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A male lion defending a buffalo kill from vultures at dawn.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A male lion keeps a careful eye on vulutures at a buffalo kill he is feeding on.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A male lion feeding on a buffalo carcass.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Two lionesses on a termite mound watching cautiously as lions from another pride feed on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A male lion alert as he guards a lioness from his pride at dawn. The female was in estrus and the courting couple had been mating.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A pride male pauses to drink on his way to cover after feeding on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A pride male challenging a young lioness who was being forced to leave the pride, while her older relatives look on. There were too many adult lionesses already.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A group of lions lying on a termite mound watching cautiously as lions from another pride feed on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Two male lions in the heart of their territory on Paradise Plain, on the alert for rivals.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Coalition of four young male lions investigating wart hog burrow.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Bila Shaka Lugga, Narok County. Pride of lions huddling together to shelter from the rain at the beginning of the Long Rains. The lioness on the right is alert to wildebeest and zebra grazing on the plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Two adult male lions patrolling their territory.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Three male lions patrolliing their territory early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Three adult male lions out patrolling their territory stopping to roll in the dung left by a buffalo.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Three adult male lions investigating a buffalo dropping which one of them had rolled in.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Three male lions greeting and investigating scent. One of the males had found a buffalo dropping and rolled in it.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A lioness roaring early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A dark maned pride male sitting alert in long red oat grass early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Two male lions alert to the movements of female members of their pride. They are patrolling their territory and stopping from time to time to scent mark to signify ownership.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A lioness turns to watch her pride mates moving off to hunt.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A pride of lions with large cubs of a year or more old lying up on a termite mound early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A lioness carrying one of her three 10 week old cubs to a new hiding place along an intermittent water course.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A young lioness licking her lips after feeding on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A pride male watching other members of his pride on the move early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. Liones and cub feeding on a kill at dawn.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Male lion sniffing scent of a lioness in his pride. He is grimacing with a typical flehmen face drawing the scent in to his nose and mouth to check on the sexual status of the lioness.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A black maned pride male pulling a flehmen face on smelling the urine of a lioness.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A pride male surveys his domain early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Lions mating. There is often a brief and violent spat as the male dismounts.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A pride male roaring while courting a lioness he is guarding between intermittent bouts of mating.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A male lion in the heart of his trerritory watching lionesses on a chill dawn morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Male lion watching lionesses from his pride at dawn.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Bila Shaka Lugga, Narok County. Male lion alert to the movement of female members of his pride at dawn.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Talek River, Narok County. A large adult male leopard who had just fed on an adult wildebeest. He is scraping his back legs and peeing while watching his subadult son perched in a tree.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A lioness alert in long red oat grass while being greeted by a five month old cub.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. Two 4 month old cubs playing on a dead tree at the edge of the marsh.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Bila Shaka Lugga, Narok County. Lionesses grooming after feeding on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A female cheetah with her 6 three month old male cub resting on a termite mound at dawn.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A four year old male lion watching other members of his pride at dawn.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A female cheetah with her four five month old cubs feeding on a male Thomson's Gazelle.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Young 18 month old male leopard alert to the presence of a large adult male leopard who was almost certainly his father.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. Lion cubs playing early in the morning after feeding on a kill. The larger cub is about 8 months old, the younger one ten weeks old.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Male cheetahs feeding on a wildebeest calf they have just killed.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A 20 month old male leopard watchfull in the tree where he has been feeding on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A 20 month old male leopard watchfull in the tree where he has been feeding on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A 20 month old male leopard watchfull in the tree where he has been feeding on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A young male lion of two to three years of age.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A young adult male lion charging. He was trying to intimidate a young lioness who he was courting. Males also charge like this when chasing vultures or hyenas from a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Young lioness being chased by one of two nomadic males intent on breeding with her and staking a claim to the territory.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A lioness jumps across a water filled drainage ditch in a marsh as her cubs and other members of the pride hesitate.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A male lion alert as he watches lionesses from his pride on the move. He is standing tall to show his size and power.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A black maned pride male on patrol in long red oat grass early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. A lioness with her two 3 month old cubs resting in the heart of Musiara Marsh.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. Two lionesses watching other pride members setting off to hunt.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A female leopard lying in the shade of a croton bush watching for prey.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A male cheetah catching a wildebeest calf using its sharp dew claw to help pull it to a halt.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. One of a coalition of three male cheetahs hunting wildebeest during the dry season. The male has snagged the wildebeest calf using its razor sharp dew claw heloing to anchor it and to pull it to a halt.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A female cheetah strangling an adult female impala. This is the typical killing bits used by big cats, pinning their prey to the ground and strangling or suffocating it.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A young adult male lion of nearly four years of age chasing a Thomson's Gazelle fawn that it came across on the open grasslands.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Lioness drinking after feeding on prey.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. One of a coaltion of 3 territorial cheetah brothers marking a Balananites tree and cheking for scent left by other cheetahs in their area.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A female leopard and her 6 month old male cub feeding on a waterbuck calf she had killed and stashed in a tree.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A 20 month old male leopard descends from the tree where he has been feeding on a kill.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A young female leopard lying on a rock at the end of the afternoon.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A female leopard stands alert near to the tree where she has stashed her kill, and her cub is feeding. She is watchful for lions and hyenas.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A female leopard in a fig tree looking out across her territory for danger and possible prey early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A female leopard in a fig tree looking out across her territory for danger and possible prey early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A female leopard stretches and digs her claws in to the trunk of a fig tree leaving a visible mark and scent which helps to mark her territory.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A female leopard looking out across her territory for danger and possible prey early in the morning.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Leopard Gorge, North Mara Conservancy, Narok County. Female leopard with her four month old female cub early in the morning among long red oat grass.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Leopard Gorge, Mara North Conservancy, Narok County. Female leopard with 4 month old female cub among red oat grass at Leopard Gorge.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A female leopard resting at the rocky hideout where she has left her cub for safety.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A female leopard watches for prey from her hiding place in a tree at the edge of the plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Leopard Gorge, Narok County. A female leopard with her four month old female cub at rocky outcrop among red oat grass.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, North Mara Conservancy, Narok County. Female leopard at Leopard Gorge among long red oat grass with her 4 month old daughter Malaika.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Mara North Conservancy, Narok County. A shy female leopard descending from a Balanites tree or Desert Date where she has been resting.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Talek River area, Narok County. A female leopard crouches on a termite mound near to cover late in the evening watching for suitable prey such as impalas.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Talek River area, Narok County. A female leopard sits alert on a termite mound late in the evening watching for prey.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Talek River area, Narok County. A female leopard sits alert on a termite mound late in the evening watching for prey.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Leopard Gorge, Narok District. Female leopard raking her forepaws along the trunk of a fig tree to leave a visible scar and scent from glands between her toes helping to mark her territory.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Musiara Marsh, Narok County. Lioness playfighting with one of her cubs in the marsh.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. Lioness watchful on a termite mound while resting with the pride.
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