It’s a fine art, the survival game, and lions forming part of the top of the food chain have mastered the ability to survive. Always on the prowl when they are up and about.
The above video clip is of one of our lioness “cubs”. She is all grown up and is approximately 2 ½ years old. It’s quite something to have seen her grow up into the beautiful lioness she is today.
She now leaves the pride from time to time to roam the plains of Africa on her own. Her two brothers are busy with their own antics that come with being an adolescent male lion. So she seems to have taken a liking to spending time on her own in what is known to her as her kingdom.
It was an afternoon game drive this past week that we found her, all alone, on the wetlands area. Stalking a suspecting herd of zebra that were grazing about 700 meters from where she was hiding, or trying at least.
We sat with her for a couple of hours, just having the privilege to observe her tactics. As I mentioned the zebra’s were aware of her presence, but she stayed with the herd as they moved across the wetlands.
With the sun dipping it’s head behind the mountains the chill of winter, still present, settles in. We head back to the lodge. The road that we take runs along the airstrip that links up to the road that takes us back to the warmth and comfort of five star luxuries.
As we approached the end of the airstrip, we came across none other than Amakhosi’s four boys. (Refer to post: Amakhosi’s pride and privilege posted 20 July 2010)
Lying stretched out with full bellies; the four cheetah boys surprised us once again!
What more could one ask for than the perfect afternoon in the African bushveld, spent with some of Africa’s big cats.
