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Tanzania 2014 Serengeti Mara 1st afternoon

Tanzania is in eastern Africa, just below Uganda and Kenya, and on the Indian Ocean. At the end of our eleven day/ten-night Zambia safari, we flew from Livingston to Johannesburg for an overnight stay. The next day we flew to Arusha, Tanzania via Nairobi. Arriving at Arusha Coffee Lodge at around 8 pm, we spent two nights (one full day) relaxing there before our next adventure. On the morning of 28 August 2014, our guide and driver, Nelson, picked us up at ACL in his 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser for the trip to Ngorongoro Crater. After three nights and two full days in the Crater while staying at Lemala Ngorongoro Camp, we flew by Coastal bush plane out of Manyara Airstrip to Kogatende Airstrip for four nights at Sayari Mara Camp in the remote NW corner of the Serengeti near the Mara River and the Kenyan border. Albert Alfred Lucas was our guide and driver. All arrangements for our requested Tanzanian safari from our arrival at ACL through our return to Arusha and departure from ACL on 5 September 2014 were made by Africa Travel Resource.

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Female Lion on the lookout for dinner. It's 6:37 pm.
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Female Lion on the lookout for dinner. It's 6:37 pm.

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  • While this mating lasted only about 5 seconds, these episodes repeat up to four times an hour for up to 5 days. It is only the act of mating that causes the female to produce eggs. Plus, males tend to have weak sperm. So mating takes a while to achieve fertilization and little leopards.
  • See ya later! And off she goes. The male looks a little confused.
  • One minute and 15 seconds later, she's back. He's exhausted. Well, this has been going on for days!
  • If he is not asleep, he is doing a good job of pretending. She tries to get him going.
  • He hasn't budged.
  • There must be some kind of leopard-talk message here. Maybe it's day 5. At this point the female left so that the male could recover. We also departed.
  • Female Lion resting on her look-out above the valley.
  • King of the Beasts, taking it easy. The setting is in a semi-circle of three linked kopjes occupied by a small pride of lions - this one male, some females and a bunch of cubs.
  • Two of the younger lions, not exactly cubs anymore, notice the male.
  • On their way to play with Pops.
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  • Female Lion on the lookout for dinner. It's 6:37 pm.
  • She takes note of our Land Cruiser. Apparently only Zebras recognize the people inside, lucky for us. Please leave a comment or send an e-mail if it's not Zebras or if it's more than Zebras.
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