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Bill Hansen | all galleries >> Africa September 2014 >> All Animals and Landscapes > Lion brothers, a short photo essay - See caption below image IMG_4515 web 1600v2sh.jpg
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19-SEP-2014

Lion brothers, a short photo essay - See caption below image IMG_4515 web 1600v2sh.jpg

The next several images tell a story. Two young male lions are resting very near to our vehicles. One gets up, walks over to the line of vehicles, passes most of them, and lies down to sleep partly in the shade of our vehicle. His brother also walked though the lineup, stopped and "marked" (peed on) the rear tire of one vehicle. As for the last image in the series, in which a corner of our vehicle appears, leaning out of the vehicle a little is okay, but *never* get out of the vehicle! The animals seem to think of the vehicles as "those big boring things which never do anything", and they don't associate them with prey. But of course if a human were to get out of a vehicle while a lion (or similar) was nearby, very bad things would be likely to happen

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1/2000s f/7.1 at 400.0mm iso640 full exif

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