Lion on elephant kill, Panthera leo Nogatshaa

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The lions of Nogatshaa in the Chobe National Park, Botswana, are infamous in the ability to hunt juvenile elephants. A survival startegy they developed after the Mababe depression dried up and the other ungulates and herbivores they normally hunted left.

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Size: 5300px × 3536px
Location: Chobe National Park Botswana.
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves; Agfa Awards Winner / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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