Early morning in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (in the Kalahari). Three lions striding purposefully forward, towards a herd of Wildebeest. To select their next meal.
Lions in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park ©WMB/notesfromafrica.wordpress.com
As it turned out the Wildebeest were quickly on to the lions (they weren’t being very sneaky about it!), and made an escape.
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Kitties! Sorry, I always root for the lions in these situations.
Yeah, so do I! 🙂 I love cats of all sizes – they’re just such fascinating creatures.
So do I, Laura! 🙂 Particularly if they have hungry little ones waiting ‘back home’ for that extra awww factor.
Beautiful.
Glad that you like it. Thank you for visiting my blog! 🙂
It’s great to watch animals doing their ‘thing’. And one up to the Wildebeest, that probably does not happen too often. Great image for this weeks challenge, I can’t imagine a pack of lions ever going backwards.
Thanks! Yes, I find it more interesting to watch and photograph animals when they’re busy doing something. I’m not sure that it was a serious hunt. I wondered whether it was a training session – the two female lions teaching the younger male.
Love the photo but am not necessarily on the side of the ‘kitties’: I guess it is survival of the fittest out in the field and if the wildebeest had the nous to ‘get lost’ in time I’ll clap for them too 🙂 !
When you are out in the bush – especially somewhere as arid as the Kalahari – you realise just how tough life is. Every day is a matter of life or death. Although the predators are at the top of the food chain, they can quickly become victims if they get injured or sick. And the young/baby predators are always at risk.
Love this take on the theme!
Thank you! 🙂 For most of the photo challenges, I’ve tried to show an African look at the theme.
It makes sense and for interesting viewing 🙂
The big cats are so impressive! They blend in so perfectly with the environment, though they don’t seem to be using it to their advantage here, but it made for a fantastic photo!
You don’t realise in a photo like this, just how big lions are in real life. They’re BIG! I loved how confidently they were striding through the grass. As I said to Paul above, I don’t think this was a serious hunt. Think the two females were training the young male lion – perhaps in what NOT to do?! 🙂
That’s so interesting that the lions do “practice training runs!” I never thought about that before – how else would the younger lions learn?
Last time we were in the Kalahari, we saw a mother leopard also teaching her cub. Wrote about that here: http://wp.me/pYuZP-1f4
What a superb photo! I’ll bet you thought you were in for some action there! Pity the lions were so blasé about it all!
Although the lions were downwind from the wildebeest, it was really too open there for the lions to sneak up on them. We sat and watched for quite a while, until the wildebeest ran off, and then lions finally gave up.