Lions play at dawn: Video
Published by Wildcaster 10 months, 1 week ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, experience, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, hunting, impala, lions, malilangwe, Malilangwe narrowcasting, mashable, narrowcasting, night, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, predators, teach, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.The lions hadn’t moved from their position in the morning and were still napping at sunset, but were active shortly afterwards.
They were just south of the hills in the sandy soils, which was a relief as the clay soils to the south are still wet.
Their move didn’t last and a few hundred meters on they were out again. This was only until a giraffe almost walked on top of them. They sprung into action but she got away.
When the clay soils are wet the game tends to stay away from them obviously, so it was a huge surprise (well actually I should have guessed it) that the lions then headed south onto the clays.
All the game moves off the clay and the lions move onto the clay. Hmmm……no sense in that plan.
Thankfully the clays had dried out considerably and were fine for us to drive on except for a couple of small wet patches.
Needless to say the lions didn’t find any animals on the clays and spent the night moving in fits and starts southwards. That is deeper into the clays.
So no surprise at dawn that another night went by and the lions went hungry, although they did end up eating grass at dawn.
With a fairly lazy night behind them the youngsters managed to gather enough energy to spend a little play time together.
When they took to the shade I’ve headed on to Banyini to check on those impala mommies. Alas they’re still keeping me in the dark. Even I’m beginning to feel uncomfortable now seeing them with those huge tummies ready to burst any day now.
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Great video Kim. To me seeing the lions at early dawn, practically just a shadow of them, with the early blue sky in the background is stunning. What a lovely sunrise shot also. You don’t have to see alot of action to realize the beauty of Africa.
Kim,
I really liked this video. It was full of colour!
Like Dana mentions above, this continent is gorgeous.
Gorgeous sunrise. Were you lying on the grass close to the lions or did you use a telephoto from a good distance? Amazing photography. I could be wrong, but Manyari seemed to recognize you.
Thankyou Kim
For your endless love and compassion for all the animals you bring into our lives.
Because of people like you bringing us the true nature of animals some day i hope there
won’t be any more circuses and zoos. We all will be able to see them where they should
be in their own habitat.
Because of you
Absolutely beautiful Kim - loved it!! Thanks abunch!
Refreshing, wonderful, superb.