Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Thanks for looking. If you see their overstuffed and sagging bellies in the photos, you understand how they had so much time to play! Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > All are wonderful, especially the Right Hook and the Painful Bite, and the > family portrait at the end. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > > > Just got back from Ranthambhore after a week of very enjoyable wildlife > > watching at Ranthambhore National Park. > > > > The last series of Big Cat photographs from my recent safari to Northern > > Tanzania depicts Simba Cubs in uninhibited play. As I mentioned, with > > plentiful food (look at the bellies of the cubs in all the photographs > > below), a lot of time was available for play - in fact in one instance > they > > used an uneaten wildebeest calf carcass as an impromptu football, and did > > not show the slightest inclination to eat it, having polished off its > > mother earlier. The play is deadly serious stuff - it provides practice > for > > and thus hones all the skills that the cubs would need for survival in > > adulthood. It also determines their pecking order within the pride, and > for > > any male partnerships that might form later. > > > > Tag: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120306_07586.jpg.html > > > > Boxing: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120306_07599.jpg.html > > > > Wrestling: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120306_07601.jpg.html > > > > Neck Lock: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120307_08345.jpg.html > > > > Right Hook: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120306_07772.jpg.html > > > > Painful Bite: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120307_08412.jpg.html > > > > Football: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120306_07807.jpg.html > > > > The Four Musketeers: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120307_08426.jpg.html > > > > Please see large. > > > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >