Thieves

Ten, the day hunting pride, is spread on 20 mtrs of river bank, grass casting shadows on their golden bodies, impalas are not far at all. One lioness starts stalking, disappears into a ditch. We are the other side of an impala ram, waiting. The time passes slowly, the air is dense and the atmosphere tense. Then a stupid, super stupid young male pops the head up and the ram disappears as fast as a rocket.... The lioness emerges from the ditch no more then 5meters from were the impala was.... man, she was soooo close... stupid male.
To our surprise she does not stop but start trotting along the river bank followed by a second female and obviously by us. She is blatantly in the open and she does not care of all the impalas barking, the other one keeps peering in the river bed, she follows the leader and then deviate some ten meters to come back after some minutes.
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They walk for more then one km and then the reach a thicker area, they slow down and disppear into the bush. We go around and wait, some minutes later we hear lions growling... they are eating... we found them soon, all ten with what remains of a impala ewe.
We watch them for a while and when we are ready to leave, Mapalala from his car spots a leopard way up on a tre over where the lions were feeding half an hou before. The spotteid cat soon climbs down and disappears but gives us a precise clue of what happened.
Forget the mighty hunting lions ,these guys today were nothing more then thieves.
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