Lions

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Lion bonanza starts. In our evening walking safari we see lions, rather Brian does and he’s exclaiming to me ‘they're just there..there.. can’t you see!?’. Well, in my defence, lions are sand coloured and they’re lying on sand! There’s four young males sitting leisurely in the middle of the river and later a cub and its mum emerge from a hidehold where they’ve dragged a recent kill.

Since we’re walking, Brian and the scout are very careful not to encroach on the lion’s space, they pay particular attention to whether they’re flattening their ears or taking too much interest. But they don’t. It amazes me that eons of hunting have made lions fearful of humans so they don’t even express any interest; without guns we would be such easy pickings - walking ungainly and torturously slow (compared to their gait) across the sand.

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