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Page 73
... dark. As if on signal, the lionesses fanned out and dissolved in the grass, each moving toward prey on her own, yet each taking part in a cooperative effort whose strategy was predetermined by many hunts. I waited beside Black Mane and ...
... dark. As if on signal, the lionesses fanned out and dissolved in the grass, each moving toward prey on her own, yet each taking part in a cooperative effort whose strategy was predetermined by many hunts. I waited beside Black Mane and ...
Page 115
... dark-brown mane and with hindquarters so spindly that they seemed in imminent danger of collapse. A month later these two males joined three nomadic lionesses in a shallow valley just east of the Gol kopjes and formed what I called the ...
... dark-brown mane and with hindquarters so spindly that they seemed in imminent danger of collapse. A month later these two males joined three nomadic lionesses in a shallow valley just east of the Gol kopjes and formed what I called the ...
Page 177
... dark, transverse stripes. Fully grown they are some twenty-two inches long and weigh about three pounds. Kay noted that every morning between 7:45 and 8:10, long after sunup, several heads would pop from the holes of the hill and ...
... dark, transverse stripes. Fully grown they are some twenty-two inches long and weigh about three pounds. Kay noted that every morning between 7:45 and 8:10, long after sunup, several heads would pop from the holes of the hill and ...
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The Seasons | 25 |
Life in the Pride | 60 |
Neighborly Disputes | 102 |
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