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... hearing. Just after midnight, Flop-ear and Notch walked alertly ahead until their shadows disappeared in some tall grass. I waited beside the cubs, feeling that the lionesses were hunting something I could not see. Suddenly the cubs ...
... hearing. Just after midnight, Flop-ear and Notch walked alertly ahead until their shadows disappeared in some tall grass. I waited beside the cubs, feeling that the lionesses were hunting something I could not see. Suddenly the cubs ...
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... Flop-ear. Suddenly Flop-ear sprinted and after a brief chase captured a gazelle fawn. This she ate. Afterwards the cubs crowded around her feeding site looking for scraps. It was now 3:00 a.m. and the group moved upriver. There the two ...
... Flop-ear. Suddenly Flop-ear sprinted and after a brief chase captured a gazelle fawn. This she ate. Afterwards the cubs crowded around her feeding site looking for scraps. It was now 3:00 a.m. and the group moved upriver. There the two ...
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... Flop- ear's grown cubs arrived a few minutes later. Without hesitation Limp attacked Flop-ear. She fled with the carcass and he pursued, running awkwardly with his gimpy leg, until after five hundred feet she relinquished the carcass ...
... Flop- ear's grown cubs arrived a few minutes later. Without hesitation Limp attacked Flop-ear. She fled with the carcass and he pursued, running awkwardly with his gimpy leg, until after five hundred feet she relinquished the carcass ...
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The Seasons | 25 |
Life in the Pride | 60 |
Neighborly Disputes | 102 |
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