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Nice one Jan!
An old muncher if you take a look at the broken canine.

Saw this guy on H1-3 in Kruger in October 2011


1.Lion by Riaanf31, on Flickr

After he was finished...along came his partner in crime and her turn at the feast


4.Lion by Riaanf31, on Flickr


2.Lion by Riaanf31, on Flickr


3.Lion by
Riaanf31, on Flickr


5.Lion by Riaanf31, on Flickr

WOW, Great pics SurfCindy.

Thank you soo much for sharing

Does anyone know about the markings these two young males have on their shoulders? These males were seen near Berg En Dal. What first appears to be a "normal scar" takes on new meaning when you notice that both males have the identical marks- one on the left shoulder and the other has it on his right. I think you can make it out on the pictures (even at small size) the marking looks like an underlined c. I asked the guide if it was for research, and he said researchers only collar the lions. I haven't had time to look through all of the forum postings (we just returned from the trip), so please forgive me if this topic has been covered somewhere!

Thanks for the pics guys

A very sad pic, a dead lioness

But I wondered if it was natural for them to go this "black" colour, or if something else happened. Any insight would be greatly appreciated


13. Dead Lion by rcferreiras, on Flickr

Great image of the kill

Sjoe very sad indeed when any any animal died ...may be TB?:cry:

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On the road to Tshokwane from Sukuza





H6 Nwanetsi road

Not pretending to be an expert but have read on here, that Sanparks marks lions that have escaped from a park at some time, so they have a record of those that could become a problem.

Young cub posing



Closeup

a decent looking male taken at end of S100

Hi all,

Early June 2012 Lettie and myself found ourselves in Satara for one night.

The campsite was PACKED and eventually a lady [ Cathy Verster ] approached us after we were driving up and down several times looking for a place to pitch out little dome tent which we use for fly camping when staying over for only one night at a time. She kindly guided us to a secluded spot behind their camp and shared their power supply with us.

A little later we joined them for after supper coffee during which they advised us to drive the S100 early the next morning as it was renown for lion.

Well, the next morning we rushed to the gate all set to search for lion, just to find ourselves waiting at the gate with a score of cars ahead of us. What a disappointment it was to find most of these cars turning onto the S100 ahead of us, the road was transformed into a dust bowl ! All lions will now be scared off and fled way into the bush !



We slowed down to allow the dust to settle and started focusing on photographing frozen impala and frozen guinea fowl.

Soon the taller trees along the road made space for low shrubbery with the odd tree skeleton spread over the veld.

Lettie noticed three such dead trees lining up in an striking line and we stopped for a photo.



Next moment a lioness popped out of the shrubs right by the nearest tree !



Soon more, and more, and more lions could be seen moving through the shrubs and then emerging a little further up the road where the ones in the lead seem to linger to plan their next move.



By now we had lost count of the number of lions moving into and through open spaces in the shrubs.
Twelve were seen entering the shrubs but it seems that more were already in the shrubs or had arrived from further in behind the shrubs.

Soon some started moving ahead through the open savannah along the road. The below mother and son were clearly on a mission that could only lead to an inevitable kill.



Soon more . . . and more . . . and more lion were pouring onto the open veld and they looked more like a herd of impala. On the next photo eighteen lion can be counted with several more spread out too wide to be in the photo.



We normally have poor luck in finding lion making this sighting one of the real WOW highlights
of our years of visiting Kruger !

Later that morning, back in Satara we were told that a pride [ rather a herd ] of 24 lion had been seen several times along the S100 - apparently there are also two magnificently maned males. We never saw the two of them, but we certainly saw a sight to behold that day !

That's amazing 100ponder You never know what bonus you get when you stop.

Wonderful sighting

Lovely pics 100ponder I was also up at Maroela in early June ans also heard that there was a massive pride to be found on the s100

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Lioness in lower sabie