I’m beginning to feel claustrophobic spending all night with the mating lions and going nowhere.

Last night the Manyari and her boy didn’t move more than 100m. They lay holed up in the 6ft high sorghum and setaria grasses, mating only about twice an hour. This being about half the tempo they were going at last night.
The lad must be running out of steam, although Viagra would be proud of his performance. It’s probably her though, those headaches getting too intense.

They really just seem to be in this totally comatosed state. Hardly acknowledging our presence, absolutely no interest in hunting and happy to lie in the same place all night only to wake, mate and collapse asleep again.
The other male could only lie around in the distance calling all night. And not to be outdone the pair would reply.

I left the lions at dawn to get some breathing space and check out a little more of the reserve.
Of course I don’t seem to have missed anything. Well, I just didn’t see remains of any action.

Most of the plains game were around Banyini and a big herd of impala on the airstrip.
I sure hope tonight the lions pluck a little more energy to get slightly more active. But the truth is this could carry on a couple more days.
































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