Hormones rule lions: Video

So there you have it. I leave the lions for one night and they’re back at it.

Manyari and the 2 males were sleeping when I joined them at dusk. When they did eventually awake I couldn’t believe Manyari was at it again, mating.

Surely after having mated with both males for 2 weeks she must have conceived?
Obviously not, unless Manyari’s just going for pleasure. Although she didn’t too happy about life in general last night.

Up until about midnight she would mate and go straight back to sleep. But then it seemed her hormones were attacking her brain. She became very restless and kept wandering around in circles and moving to and fro, of course the male kept trailing her while his brother waited in the wings as usual. Every now and then they’d have their little power display, both rolling on their backs up against each other.

Manyari wasn’t feeling tops as the hormones ravaged her body and mind, and definitely not feeling like the queen of beasts. Whereas the male was getting all he wanted and really feeling like a man, like the King of Beasts! (it’s just a feeling though. I’m not convinced lions are the king of beasts)
Eventually the one male left and headed north east calling as he went.

Manyari and her mate moved west towards the Chiredzi River before resting up in the Acacia tortilis woodland, but still carried on mating into the day.