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Kenya, Laikipia, Lewa Downs. A cheetah watches over its sleeping sibling.
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Kenya, Laikipia, Lewa Downs. A pair of cheetah groom each other.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A male lion stalks through the grass out on the plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A maned male lion looks out across the plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A maned male lion looks out across the plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. Flies buzz round the face of a male lion who is watching through the grass of the savanna.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A pair of cheetah looks out over the plains from the shade of an acacia bush.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A female cheetah hunts a topi in the short grass plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A female cheetah stalks a herd of Thomson's gazelle on the savannah.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A female cheetah stalks a herd of Thomson's gazelle on the savannah.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A female cheetah looks out over the savannah from the vantage point of a termite mound.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A female cheetah looks out over the savannah.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A female cheetah hunts a topi in the short grass plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A female cheetah looks out over the savannah.
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A fine maned lion.Adult male lions weigh up to 500lb. They begin to grow manes at the age of eighteen months,which will not fully develop until the age of five or six.
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A fine maned lion.Adult male lions weigh up to 500lb. They begin to grow manes at the age of eighteen months,which will not fully develop until the age of five or six.
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A young male lion looks intently at animals grazing on the plains from his commanding position in a tree.
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A fine male lion.Adult male lions weigh up to 500lb. They begin to grow manes at the age of eighteen months,which will not fully develop until the age of five or six.
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A black-maned lion stretches in front of a lioness in Masai Mara.
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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 after a heavy rain storm.
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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 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 male lion defending a buffalo kill from vultures at dawn.
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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. 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 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. A four year old male lion watching other members of his pride at dawn.
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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, 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 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 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. 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, 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 turns to watch her pride mates moving off to hunt.
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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, 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, 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, Narok County. A pride male surveys his domain early in the morning.
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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 watching other members of his pride on the move early in the morning.
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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, 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, 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. Two lionesses stalk through the long grass out on the plains.
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Kenya, Masai Mara. A pride of lions cluster together under the meagre shade of a balanites tree at midday.
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A pride of lions drinks from a muddy pool in the Masai Mara Game Reserve.
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A pride of lions rests near water in the Masai Mara Game Reserve.The nucleus of any pride is a number of closely related females.
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A cheetah wearing a radio collar,in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. He is a habituated cheetah,originally orphaned. His brother was recently killed in 2004.
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A cheetah family on the grassy plains of Masai Mara. Cubs may stay with their mother for up to two years.The cheetah is a fast,efficient and frequent killer of gazelles and impala. .
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A leopard walks purposefully in the golden light of early morning. .
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A pride of lions moves to shelter from an approaching storm.The nucleus of any pride is a number of closely related females.
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Lion cubs on a buffalo kill.Cubs are born blind and will open their eyes after two weeks. They begin to eat meat at six weeks old.
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