Mrs Lion?

Gallery: WildlifePosted May 10, 201686 views3 comments

Most people including me would think from this angle that this is a young Male lion, but it is a female!
Whilst we were in Moremi it spent all of it's time in the company of a large male, but no sight of mating activity.
These Maned females do occur , but not very often.
EOS 1DX
200- 400 mm F4 at 442 mm
F 5.6
ISO 1600
1/250

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3 comments

Comment posted by Richard Sandor on May 10, 2016 at 9:42 AM

Ken: she's a handsome creature indeed and your large image shows lots of fine detail. In the large image, if you look at her right hind leg where it meets the body, there appear to be two rings. Perhaps she was constricted in a snare at one time? Richard

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Comment posted by Ed Williams on May 11, 2016 at 12:33 AM

Great shot of an anomaly Ken. This is really interesting and thank you for the story behind it.

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on May 14, 2016 at 3:32 PM

Hi Ken,

Nice documentation of an interesting anomaly (and fine animal!). If you have more room on this one I'd suggest adding a little more space on the left (and possibly a little less on the right), functionally shifting the lioness to the right somewhat.

Cheers...

Brad

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