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Page 63
When a pride sets off on a hunt, the lionesses walking tensely in front, the cubs
bounding playfully in the middle, and ... In addition, by bringing up the rear the
males act as inadvertent guards for the cubs, which when small are vulnerable to
...
When a pride sets off on a hunt, the lionesses walking tensely in front, the cubs
bounding playfully in the middle, and ... In addition, by bringing up the rear the
males act as inadvertent guards for the cubs, which when small are vulnerable to
...
Page 84
feels protective toward her cubs, often warning some leonine intruder away with
threatening growls, she may also permit some pride members to visit them. In this
way ... But the small cubs fled, unused to strangers, much less uninhibited ones.
feels protective toward her cubs, often warning some leonine intruder away with
threatening growls, she may also permit some pride members to visit them. In this
way ... But the small cubs fled, unused to strangers, much less uninhibited ones.
Page 218
The mother was just carrying a fourth cub away, heading straight across the
plains toward a thicket nine hundred feet away. When the other cars departed, I
knelt down by the cubs and cupped one of the tiny bodies in my hands. It
weighed ...
The mother was just carrying a fourth cub away, heading straight across the
plains toward a thicket nine hundred feet away. When the other cars departed, I
knelt down by the cubs and cupped one of the tiny bodies in my hands. It
weighed ...
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Contents
The Seasons | 3 |
Life in the Pride | 44 |
Neighborly Disputes | 92 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Golden Shadows, Flying Hooves |
| Author | George B. Schaller |
| Publisher | Knopf, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0394472438, 9780394472430 |
| Length | 287 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Animals / Big Cats Nature / Animals / Mammals |
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