Lions on sleeping pills?: Video
Published by Wildcaster 1 year, 11 months ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, documentary, ecotraining, education, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, lions, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, polls, rain, teach, video, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.A cool day.
At dawn a cloud bank moved in and tried to rain but alas we weren’t that lucky.
Anyway it stayed cool all day. Which just made the Nduna pride even more lethargic. They were on the move at dawn but soon all succumbed to sleep. And even at dusk the cool weather was just too much for them as they decided to sleep in. Again!
The adult male wasn’t with the pride this morning and was calling and calling to the south. He was probably doing his territorial stuff as his pride was now well into the Banyini pride’s territory. It is unlikely there will be any confrontation as the Banyini pride are a long ways to the west across the Chiredzi river. They’re also a much smaller pride than the Nduna’s.
Right now it seems like the Nduna’s want to take over the whole of Malilangwe for themselves. An area previously occupied by 4 different prides.
Will their numbers grow that the huge pride will then be invincible? The next year or so should tell the story.
To date we haven’t had much activity out of the Nduna pride but as soon as we follow them all night things should start happening. We plan to move over to night shift next week.
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Beautiful photography! Amazing that we can even see the flies on her leg — which she obviously wanted off but could only summon up the energy to shake her foot a bit.
When they are all cuddled together, I think I’d like to snuggle in with them, until one of them yawns and I see the teeth and remember that these cats don’t snuggle with humans like my house cat does.
I loved that last yawn which clearly said, “Oh why bother to get up? It’s so comfy here.”
Thank you Kim for giving us this wonderful opportunity to “roam” with the animals.
I’ve read that lions sleep for up to 20 hours in a day. Is that the case on most days? If so, is the tiredness caused by hunting and then digesting large amounts of food? Also, I’m curious if you can clear something up for me. I feel like I’ve read conflicting info about the amount lions sleep. I saw a National Geographic special (Eternal Enemies “Lions vs Buffalo”) talking about a pride of lions who hunted a herd of buffalo for like 8-9 hours at a time. Assuming I didn’t mis-hear that, is staying awake 8-9 hours (let alone hunting that long) a rarity for lions? Or does it just depend on how hungry they are?
It’s interesting to me how an awake lion will paw a sleeping lion. Not very polite!
Loved watching the lions, made me yawn too.
Anyone who has trouble getting to sleep, need only play this video, and they will be in la la land in no time! :]
What a wonderful clip to see this morning. Made me want to lay down on that cool green grass and take a snooze.
Love the close ups it shows you just how beautiful these guys are. The symmetry of their bodies and heads is breath taking. Thank your for your work showing what nature brings into our lives.
Thanks Kim for a good day
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Lions are just cats and can afford to sleep that much. if they weren’t getting enough food and sleeping that much they would starve.
In Relentless Enemies those lions might hunt for 8 -9 hours but then once they’ve got a kill they might rest for a few days. They sleep on average 20 hours a day. Some nights they can be active all night travelling vast distances. Other nights they will sleep all night and all day and all night again. They can when their tummies are full. No reason to move around. So it’s just an average.