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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 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 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 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 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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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. A female cheetah strangling a Thomson's gazelle fawn accompanied by her three large cubs.
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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. One of a coalition of three male cheetahs pursuing a wildebeest calf in the late afternoon. Male cheetahs often take larger prey than females, particularly when hunting as a group.
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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 cheetah surveys the grassy plains of Masai Mara from a termite mound. The cheetah is a fast,efficient and frequent killer of gazelles and impala. .
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A cheetah surveys the grassy plains of Masai Mara from a termite mound. 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 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 leopard,resting comfortably in a large acacia tree (Acacia tortilis),basks in the last rays of the setting sun.
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A forest leopard stands alert on the branch of a cedar tree (Juniperus procera).
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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 20 month old male leopard descends from 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 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 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 female cheetah resting among the red oat grass at dusk . She is searching for prey before it gets too dark to hunt.
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Kenya, Masai Mara, Narok County. A female cheetah alert among the red oat grass at dusk . She is searching for prey before it gets too dark to hunt.
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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, Mara North Conservancy, Mara Buffalo Rocks, Narok County. A ten week old male leopad cub early in the morning at the rocky outcrop where it was born.
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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, 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, 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 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. 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. 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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