Lions having sundowners on Banyini: Video
Published by tracker 1 year, 9 months ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, bush knowledge, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Limpopo, lions, malilangwe, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, podcasting, predators, travel, video, waterhole, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, zimbabwe, zimbabwe..Despite all the moisture that Lions get from their kills, it is very likely that they will go and find water after a kill. Because Lions are basically at the bottom of the energy ladder, they need to conserve as much of it as possible. This is the reason why they sleep during the heat of the day and hunt at night.
The drinking ritual is also a time for bonding by rubbing shoulders with your neighbor. Lions are very social animals and will do virtually everything together. Females are the golden thread that keep the pride together and consist of mothers, daughters and grand daughters. Males will wander to defend territories and seek females to mate with to ensure their genes belong to the next generation.
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Aren’t they lovely to watch. Funny when I first read the caption - Lions having sundowners, I wasn’t quite sure what it meant. Sundowners is a term given for elderly people and people with alzheimer’s when they get disoriented as the sun goes down. I had images of lions being disoriented and confused as the sunset.
Thanks as always Kim for the great window into your world.
Here in Africa the term ‘going for sundowners’ means to go for a drink with friends, watching the sunsetting over the horizon.Very romantic…