Africa Post #2- Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my!

Minus the tigers and bears. This post will be all about the lions. Lions are very territorial and stick to their Pride's land, unless they are starving or something. We saw A LOT of lions. There are several prides in the Mara, and then some roving males that follow the migration. Lions are also BIG cats. Twice as big as a leopard or cheetah... let's just say you don't want to mess with them:

The king of the jungle

They are soo lazy! unless someone gets in their domain... then fight's on

on the hunt
We found her just after she made the kill, which is why she is still biting the neck. We never did see a lion take anything down, it usually happens at night or early morning (before 6 AM)

The Lovers... they were mating...

A pride of lions... this one had a lot of teenage lions.

Here is a "teenager"

and then the babies! there were actually three cubs... but I don't have that picture yet. We drove around in this tall grassy area for a good two hours and then Brad spotted the Mama in the grass... so we drove up the hill to see what was going on and found three week old lion cubs!! So Cute!

Come back in a week to see more africa pictures!