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"Getting Ready for Our Open Pit Barbecue"

My guide and I watched these lionesses for about an hour. They lounged around, played with their cubs, practiced a stand off with elephants three times their size, did trial runs showing off their hunting maneuvers and then one stated to dig this hole.

 

She was digging very fast and it quickly was becoming a very large and deep hole. Then the others stood guard. I asked my guide what she was digging for and he was uncertain. "Google" says she was perhaps trying to catch a small burrowing animal or maybe even looking for water. I fantasized that they were planning a barbecue after finally going hunting.

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Uploaded on August 2, 2017
Taken on March 10, 2017