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... thicket , walking with head lowered . The cubs gamboled after her , thereby scaring the gazelle before she had a chance to stalk . Suddenly all lions ran into a thicket . A porcupine rattled its long quills there , a sign that the lions ...
... thicket , walking with head lowered . The cubs gamboled after her , thereby scaring the gazelle before she had a chance to stalk . Suddenly all lions ran into a thicket . A porcupine rattled its long quills there , a sign that the lions ...
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... thickets of fever trees growing along the creeks or in the thick brush of kopjes . Weighing a mere three pounds and ... thicket to count the cubs , and these calls made me distinctly uneasy , for I never knew when the mother of the cubs ...
... thickets of fever trees growing along the creeks or in the thick brush of kopjes . Weighing a mere three pounds and ... thicket to count the cubs , and these calls made me distinctly uneasy , for I never knew when the mother of the cubs ...
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... thicket . Occasionally I saw the two tracing the edge of a riverine thicket , the mother in the lead . At such times she always had her tail raised in a graceful loop to expose the strikingly white underside of it . It seemed almost as ...
... thicket . Occasionally I saw the two tracing the edge of a riverine thicket , the mother in the lead . At such times she always had her tail raised in a graceful loop to expose the strikingly white underside of it . It seemed almost as ...
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