Casela Cubs
Casela nature park - Cascavelle - Mauritius
4 month old hand reared lion cubs, here after only 8 weeks in this enclosure for the 6 of them in the lion park after spending the first 2 and half months of their lives in the house of the the park owner being hand reared.....for diff. reasons, maybe mum ran out of milk, or that mum rejected them as was a first time mum, there is a pair of twins in here too, and only more recently have they been able to tell them apart.
They are in a group huddle here just as they would be in the wild, because they are scared, because a gardener , who we could not see had started operating a strimmer or similar and was making a noise they were unfamiliar with. They took some coaxing out, one had just left the group tentatively, .....that's one of the reasons they are now in the enclosure in the park, to get them used to all the other sounds and smells.
August 2013
Casela Cubs
Casela nature park - Cascavelle - Mauritius
4 month old hand reared lion cubs, here after only 8 weeks in this enclosure for the 6 of them in the lion park after spending the first 2 and half months of their lives in the house of the the park owner being hand reared.....for diff. reasons, maybe mum ran out of milk, or that mum rejected them as was a first time mum, there is a pair of twins in here too, and only more recently have they been able to tell them apart.
They are in a group huddle here just as they would be in the wild, because they are scared, because a gardener , who we could not see had started operating a strimmer or similar and was making a noise they were unfamiliar with. They took some coaxing out, one had just left the group tentatively, .....that's one of the reasons they are now in the enclosure in the park, to get them used to all the other sounds and smells.
August 2013