Fierce Lioness

5 months 3 weeks ago #758836 by bryanpereira
Part of a large pride I was observing
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5 months 3 weeks ago #758838 by Greg Friedman
Dude your photos demand clicking!  First to comment!  

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5 months 3 weeks ago #758859 by Red Tail
@#$#%^^!!!  Look at those teeth!  What a portrait!  

Thank you for sharing


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5 months 3 weeks ago #758877 by Tim Wiener
Another big winner!  Did you know that a lion's roar can be heard up to 5 miles away?


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5 months 3 weeks ago #758884 by bryanpereira

Tim Wiener wrote: Another big winner!  Did you know that a lion's roar can be heard up to 5 miles away?


Yes at night in the camps sometimes you can hear them, I guess at night and given its open savanna it can travel further


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5 months 3 weeks ago #758891 by Howard Swanson
Fierce, however these are such great looking animals. 


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5 months 2 weeks ago #758940 by No Show

Tim Wiener wrote: Another big winner!  Did you know that a lion's roar can be heard up to 5 miles away?


OK, I watch a lot of Discovery and didn't know that.  Very cool fun fact!

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5 months 2 weeks ago #758967 by Eliffman
I have a question for you which I didn't see any mention of this on your site, but when you go heading out, what happens if you don't find any big animals?   Do you just keep driving around or head back to where base camp is and come out another day?  


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5 months 2 weeks ago #758968 by Eliffman

Howard Swanson wrote: Fierce, however these are such great looking animals. 


Hey Howard, got your message.  Thank you, good tip!  I just responded as well.  


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5 months 2 weeks ago #758980 by bryanpereira

Eliffman wrote: I have a question for you which I didn't see any mention of this on your site, but when you go heading out, what happens if you don't find any big animals?   Do you just keep driving around or head back to where base camp is and come out another day?  


Good question its not mentioned because it never happens!  Been doing this around 30 years  and I see one of the big five every day. One day I saw all 5! Think of it as like going to a mall at lunchtime midweek. You wont see huge crowds like on a saturday, but a steady stream and if you turn a corner and no one is there around the next one you will see a few people.

Here is a blog I wrote back in 2016 highlighting 24 hours of some of my favorite sightings
www.exposuretours.com/24-hours-in-the-mara/

Here you have some group shots NO PHOTOSHOP Just incase you have doubts




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5 months 2 weeks ago #759115 by Randy Fisher
Incredible photos.  I see a couple rhino in the last shots.  A friend and I were just talking about rhino's last week, I want to say there is only something like ~26,000 of them left on the planet.  Shame.  


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5 months 2 weeks ago #759130 by bryanpereira

Randy Fisher wrote: Incredible photos.  I see a couple rhino in the last shots.  A friend and I were just talking about rhino's last week, I want to say there is only something like ~26,000 of them left on the planet.  Shame.  


Yes they are hard to find, The first day of the safari we go to a reserve where quite a few black and white rhino live. That way you can bag the shot and after everything else is easy 


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