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Subject: [Leica] Simba Cubs at Play
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 01:44:18 +0200
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Hi Jayanand,

Great serie! I love a lot of these, but the four Musketeers is my  
favorite, nice family portrait!

cheers
Lluis


El 07/04/2012, a las 16:35, Jayanand Govindaraj escribi?:

> 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
>
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