Jun 01 2008
A Sunday evening at home with my pipe, the slippers and the cat
Actually I don’t have a pipe, and I don’t wear slippers. I was more or less at home with one of my cats.
I went out last night to drop two of the Lion Guardians 20km south of here, with some tracking equipment. We had a look at Nemasi on the way there. The cubs were around, but just on the edge of spotlight range. Here’s a photo of Nemasi. for those readers who are new to this blog, she has three cubs, born around the beginning of this year. She’s the lion featured in the banner of this blog.
It looks as if she’s still suckling the cubs. Lion cubs will take milk until about 6 months of age.
Trying to take photographs of a moving lion using a hand-held 150mm lens at 1/10 with a Lion Guardian holding the spotlight doesn’t lend itself to high quality images. Nevertheless I’ve cropped out the teats. You can see the brown marks around them indicating they are being used.
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