Page 39 - ELITE PLUS MAGAZINE VOL5

 A lioness carries her week-old newborn to her pride in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.often blow dirt over themselves to create a thicker coating.Both male and female African elephants have tusks. The tusks of a bull elephant are bigger but shorter than those of a female.The lion, the largest carnivore in Africa, can be found in open wood- land, dry floodplain and shrubby veld. Its prey include large antelope, zebras, buffalo, giraffe and smaller game. Lions live in prides comprising five to 30 lions with one or two related dominant males. An adult male needs around 7kg of meat per day and an adult lioness 5kg. They can endure without food for two or three days before they need to hunt again. The bigger the pride is, the more often the lions need to hunt to have enough food to share.A search for lions brings you near herds of antelope and other prey, which come to drink at rivers, streamsContrary to popular belief, lions can climb trees, as this lioness demonstrates in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.and watering holes. During the annual great migration of 1.5 million wilde- beest and 500,000 zebras from Serengeti National Park in Tanzaniato Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, many lions follow close to their favourite source of food. I’ve found that the lions in the SerengetiElite+ 37