They were laying in the sea of giant crowfoot, quite relaxed. Then the females stood and started moving through the grass, heading towards a group of giraffes up the hill. They were very careful not to be seen but still the giraffes spotted them from far.
The females went back to rest when some zebras appeared from south, already spooked by something but totally unaware of the lions we were watching.
They went trotting straight towards the lionesses, who immediately crouched down and stalked them. As soon as the first zebra passed by the lionesses sprinted out of the grass and chased it.
The run for survival went for a hundred meter with the zebra some inches in front of the cats. The herbivore managed to run away but then the male started pursuing it but also with no success.
The other zebras bolted back in the opposite direction and one lioness begun stalking them again, it did not even need to move slowly because of the tall grass giving her great cover.
The zebra went, the lioness also, all we could see was grass an then the male came back, he was walking in the open plain straight in the direction of Onno and me, when he heard something and run towards the direction where the female disappeared.
We decided to separate the cars, I went one side, Onno the other using the roads that loops around where we thought the cats headed.
After some hundreds meter I heard the lions growling, evidence that they had killed something, we followed the sound and we got them feeding on a zebra foul they caught just then.
AWSOME.
Ah three lion’s females in camp while we were walking guests back.
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