Lionesses on a zebra kill
Panthera leo
Lion · Masai Mara · 21 February 2020
A young pride on a zebra kill in the Mara, most of one flank already gone. The Mara's lions live largely on zebra and wildebeest, and a kill this size will feed a pride for a day and everything else on the plain after that.
Lions rely on sight and hearing over smell while hunting, but once an animal is down, scent becomes the useful sense. It is what draws in every lion within range of a kill, whether or not they helped bring it down. A carcass this size rarely stays a private meal for long: hyenas will contest a fresh kill if they turn up in numbers, and whatever a pride hasn't finished by morning very often isn't there to finish.
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