Dominance display
Meet Kassi, my favourite lion in the Pendjari. Totally relaxed around vehicles and dominant male for about 3 years now.
Before seeing him, we saw two other males clearly running away from something. One of them had a nasty injury on its hind leg. We could hear roars coming from further on, so we decided to move on, hoping to find where the roars were coming from. And that's how we found Kassi, roaring and marching in the middle of the road. He stopped about 10 metres from us and started roaring, in what was an incredible display of power and total dominance! After that, he walked right next to our vehicle, heading towards the two males he chased off.
This was probably the best lion sighting I ever had.
Parc national de la Pendjari, Benin.
Dominance display
Meet Kassi, my favourite lion in the Pendjari. Totally relaxed around vehicles and dominant male for about 3 years now.
Before seeing him, we saw two other males clearly running away from something. One of them had a nasty injury on its hind leg. We could hear roars coming from further on, so we decided to move on, hoping to find where the roars were coming from. And that's how we found Kassi, roaring and marching in the middle of the road. He stopped about 10 metres from us and started roaring, in what was an incredible display of power and total dominance! After that, he walked right next to our vehicle, heading towards the two males he chased off.
This was probably the best lion sighting I ever had.
Parc national de la Pendjari, Benin.