[LRflex] Re: Hard to see
- From: "Marc Dufour" <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:13:11 +0200
Hello Bill !
Male lions have a big problem: they don't know to hunt effectively.
Lioness are the leader of the pride and learn strategy to hunt all together,
usually a group of sisters.
However, male lions have to leave the pride when they are still young and
never learn adequately these group tactics.
They compensate it with their natural strength, in some way, but generally
take part on the hunt only when the lioness group has already performed the
most part of it -and often only to appropriate the prey- or, in any case, to
help if this one is a very big one, as a buffalo.
In other words, male lions are awesome, but rather lazy and incompetent ;-)
It's why its number is progressively decreasing in the Tanzanian parks.
In this picture, the lioness wasn't alone. She had two sisters waiting,
hidden in the grass, about 100 meters away.
She was watching a warthog wich finally moved away in another direction.
It never will know what it escaped...
Go to Africa, Bill, you'll never regret!
And thanks a lot for your kind words.
Marc
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De: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de William B. Abbott III
Enviado el: domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010 19:40
Para: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [LRflex] Re: Hard to see
Marc,
I've really enjoyed your Tanzania photos and would love to follow in your
footsteps someday.
Re lions: In one of the nature programs about African predators on our
Public Broadcasting System, the remark was made that lions are successful at
making a kill only once in every ten attempts. That came to mind when I saw
the picture of the lioness in the tree; I wish I knew what came next!
Thanks again,
Bill
On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:11 AM, Marc Dufour wrote:
>
> In the african savanna, things are often hard to see, and rarely what
> they seem.
>
> Upon a leaning trunk, a lioness is watching a potential prey:
> http://tinyurl.com/366cbns
> A closer view, cropped at 100% scale, in:
> http://tinyurl.com/2uo6bfy
>
> C&C welcome.
> Marc
>
>
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