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Although the annoying flies accompany the lioness every time she moves, she looks with a very clear gaze in search of food for herself and her offspring.
Kenya - Maasai Mara
Klarer Blick!
Obwohl immer wieder die lästigen Fliegen die Löwin bei jeder ihrer Bewegung begleiten, schaut sie mit sehr klarem Blick auf der Suche nach Fressbarem für sich und ihrem Nachwuchs.
Kenia - Maasai Mara
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I have been remiss in posting wildlife photos of late. I have been dedicating more time to my pottery passion and less availability to travel has also been a hindrance. I have also been going through my archives and noticing shots that I hadn't taken note of in the past. This group of lion cubs presented wonderful opportunities that I will always remember.
Mütter Tanten, Schwestern und der Nachwuchs geben sich ein Stelldichein.
Kenia - Amboseli
Amboseli's elephants
Mothers, aunts, sisters and the offspring get together.
Kenya - Amboseli
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Female Leopard resting up a tree after feeding on an Impala.
Kwando concession, Botswana
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© Thomas Retterath 2012
I think I'm on a cat kick, inspired by my two little house kitty tabbies.
The leopard was up on a bluff. It was not happy with a couple of hyenas below as it had a recent kill it had pulled up in a nearby tree. She did take a couple of drinks from the pool of water in the rocks.
A desert-adapted African elephant strides across wind-sculpted dunes in the golden light of Namibia’s arid wilderness. Dust rises beneath its feet as it moves with quiet strength through one of the most dramatic landscapes in Africa.
During my recent trip to the Maasai Mara, we sighted Jilime, daughter of Luluka, late in the evening. Jilime is just over 2 years old and is turning out to be a successful Leopard in the wild having gained her independence from her mother recently.
Here is a photo of the her when she was just 3 months old and Luluka her mother was moving dens holding her in her mouth
We saw her late in the evening resting up a tree with a Black-backed Jackal barking at her from a distance. The next day she was resting in the grass below a tree with the Jackal hanging between the branches, having been hunted during the night.
Photographed during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Browsing the Riverbanks of DamaralandA desert-adapted African elephant raises its trunk in a powerful display within the green riverine corridors of Namibia’s Damaraland. A moment of strength and presence in one of Africa’s most remarkable landscapes.
I have to say that this rhino is only locked up there while the keepers are cleaning the enclosure!!!
This photograph is not in the public domain and may not be embedded or used on websites, blogs, or in other media without advance permission from Bruce Finocchio.
During my recent trip to the Maasai Mara, we sighted King Olobor of the Black Rock Pride early in the morning. He had had a very successful night as he was still busy feeding on the Wildebeest he had brought down under the cover of darkness.
King Olobor was captured before sunrise, during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Featured on Flickr Explore #57 on 2021-04-10
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the family Felidae.
Lions live in large groups called prides. A pride consists of multiple related females and their dependent offspring along with two or three unrelated males. A typical pride has about 15 members, although some prides as large as 40 members have been observed.
Lions spend much of their time resting; they are inactive for about 20 hours per day. Although lions can be active at any time, their activity generally peaks after dusk with a period of socialising, grooming and defecating. Intermittent bursts of activity continue until dawn, when hunting most often takes place.
Female lions, sisters, live together for life. Their female cubs also stay with the pride, even after they’re grown, but male cubs must venture out on their own once they reach maturity.
This beautiful Lionesses of the Enkoyanai Pride were on hunting mission and was photographed during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Leopardess in the Okavango Delta,Botswana
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Pride lionesses (Panthera leo) often synchronise their reproductive cycles and communal rearing and suckling of the young, which suckle indiscriminately from any or all of the nursing females in the pride. The synchronisation of births is advantageous because the cubs grow to being roughly the same size and have an equal chance of survival, and sucklings are not dominated by older cubs. Weaning occurs after six or seven months. Male lions reach maturity at about three years of age and at four to five years are capable of challenging and displacing adult males associated with another pride.
The Queen of Rekero was resting in the grass nearby as her three very cute cubs were busy playing with each other. Photographed on a late evening game drive in the Rekero area of Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Leopards (Panthera pardus pardus) are the most beautiful of all the wild cats and the most elusive. Sighting one in the wild is a treat in itself let alone getting to photograph it in it's natural habitat.
The beautiful Queen Bahati was elusive as usual but we did manage to sight her finally, coming out of the bushes going towards her cubs who were hidden a den.
Photographed during a Photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
The eldest female in a Pride is the "Queen of the Jungle" as she is the one who keeps the pride together and disciplines anybody who gets out of line. She is also in the lead of all hunting expeditions passing on her wisdom to the younger Lionesses.
This beautiful lioness was eagerly looking towards the days activities of the rest of the pride which may result in a successful hunt to feed them.
This beautiful Lionesses of the Enkoyanai Pride were on hunting mission and was captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
On a morning game drive in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, our second highlight of the drive was encountering a young male leopard called Maribye (born in March, 2020) in the eastern part of the reserve.
Maribye, which means 'of the rock' in Shangaan, was resting by a mound, and other than a film crew which had been working in the area and had located him, we had him all to ourselves.
The leopard (Panthera padrus pardus) is a solitary animal of the bush and forest and is mainly nocturnal in habit, although it sometimes basks in the sun. It is an agile climber and frequently stores the remains of its kills in the branches of a tree. It feeds upon any animals it can overpower, from small rodents to waterbuck, but generally preys on the smaller and medium-sized antelopes and deers. Leopards are very stealthy and like to stalk close and run a relatively short distance after their prey. They kill through suffocation by grabbing their prey by the throat and biting down with their powerful jaws.
The beautiful Luluka, female Leopard, gave birth to a cub 2-3 months ago. They normally move their dens so as to keep other predators away from the cub. Luluka was seen holding her cub in her jaws and moving dens nearly 3 kms away. Photographed during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
We watched these amazing creatures for some time, waaaaaay off in the distance. They also had a juvenile with them, close by. So sad to know they are but a few left of their kind in the entire world.
These animals are cruelly hunted and slaughtered for their horns. Conservation Status: critically endangered (CR) (IUCN Red List
This is a look back at our 2018 safari. More photos from this amazing trip can be seen in my Safari Album www.flickr.com/photos/25171569@N02/albums/72157669809103977
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/photos/111015669
Jenny Pansing Photos
Tiyani is a young female leopard who inhabits the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, and who currently has one cub.
On our first game drive in the Sabi Sand, we spent nearly three hours following Tiyani, who was very active and clearly on a mission.
Here, I was able to capture a close portrait of Tiyani as she temporarily stopped by a tree in order to plot her next move.
She made us work hard, but she gave us moments, and having her walk right up to, and past, our 4WD, looking at me at one point, was special.
On our first morning game drive one of our first sightings was this lioness and her four cubs lounging near the roadside. Welgevonden Game Reserve.
Una famigliola di ippopotami si crogiola al sole in una piccolissima secca del fiume, mentre il resto del branco è immerso nell'acqua.
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The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area and a World Heritage Site located in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. The area is named after Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera within the area.
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area has a healthy resident population of most species of wildlife.
The annual ungulate migration passes through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with 1.7 million wildebeest, 260,000 zebra, and 470,000 gazelles moving south into the area in December and moving north in June. This movement changes seasonally with the rains, but the migration traverses almost the entire plains in search of food.
This beautiful Lioness was photographed on the hunt on a late evening game drive inside the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.
Another elephant that I photographed during Easter 10 years ago, in South Africa.
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In the late afternoon, after the rain, the lions become active and look for prey.
The zebras don't seem to mind.
Maasai Mara - Kenya
Immer schön locker bleiben!
Am späten Nachmittag, nach dem Regen werden die Löwen aktiv und schauen nach Beute.
Den Zebras scheint das nicht zu stören.
Maasai Mara - Kenia
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Filtering through archives and wondering when a pandemic that has strangled much of the world will relent. There is so much still to see and precious little time in which to do it. Time is fleeting. So often we put off dreams, deferring our attention to more practical daily tasks. Life should be fine mixture of both. For few will regret the failure to complete menial tasks but we will all lament the failure to behold our dreams.
The Blackrock Pride has recently become a force to be reckoned with and have a speciality of hunting Buffalo's on almost a daily basis. With over 20 mouths to feed the hunting is not only done by the lead Lionesses of the pride but the sub-adult males also have honed their skills and bring down a kill very often on their own.
This very handsome sub-adult male of the Blackrock pride was basking in the early morning sun as the rest of the pride was nearby feasting on the nights wildebeest hunt. Captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Hluhluwe–Imfolozi Park is the oldest proclaimed nature reserve in Africa. It consists of 960 km² of hilly topography 280 kilometres north of Durban in central Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and is known for its rich wildlife and conservation efforts. The park is the only state-run park in KwaZulu-Natal where each of the big five game animals can be found. Due to conservation efforts, the park now has the largest population of white rhino in the world. However, the rhinos and the park's wilderness areas are now threatened by plans to build an open-cast coal mine right on the park's border, a plan that a growing coalition of organisations is fighting to stop.
The park is home to Africa's big five game: elephant, rhinoceros (black/hook-lipped and white/square-lipped), Cape buffalo, lion and leopard. It is home to 86 special species including: Nile crocodile, hippo, cheetah, spotted hyena, blue wildebeest, jackal, giraffe, zebra, waterbuck, nyala, eland, kudu, impala, duiker, suni, reedbuck, common warthog, bushpig, mongoose, baboons, monkeys, a variety of tortoises, terrapins, snakes and lizards. It is one of the world's top spots for viewing nyala. The park is a prime birding destination and is home to 340 bird species. The Hluhluwe River Flood Plain is one of the only areas in the whole of South Africa where yellow-throated, pink-throated and orange-throated longclaw species can be seen together.
The Queen of the Black Rock Pride was up and about early after sunrise together with the rest of the pride members. She was walking in the savannah plains showing off her beauty in the lovely golden light. Having being away for the night hunt she and her sister were going back to the rest of the pride.
This beautiful Queen was captured during Photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Mom looks on as her 3 cubs do their best to stay out of trouble. With nothing more than a few old logs and scrubby brush around them our vehicle started looking like an interesting plaything to the curious trio. Mom didn't even give us a second look but the cubs hung around for quite a bit of time, checking out movements within the vehicle and trying desperately to decide if a closer encounter was worth the effort. #iLoveNature #iLoveWildlife #WildlifePhotography in #Tanzania #Nature in #Africa #Serengeti #Lions #DrDADBooks #WildlifeConservation
Featured on Flickr Explore #65 on 2022-07-05.
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the family Felidae.
Lions live in large groups called prides. A pride consists of multiple related females and their dependent offspring along with two or three unrelated males. A typical pride has about 15 members, although some prides as large as 40 members have been observed.
Lions spend much of their time resting; they are inactive for about 20 hours per day. Although lions can be active at any time, their activity generally peaks after dusk with a period of socialising, grooming and defecating. Intermittent bursts of activity continue until dawn, when hunting most often takes place.
Female lions, sisters, live together for life. Their female cubs also stay with the pride, even after they’re grown, but male cubs must venture out on their own once they reach maturity.
This beautiful Lioness of the Enkoyanai Pride was on a hunting mission and was captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.