MATING LIONS

Passion in the yellow savannah gras !

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3,1/320, ISO 2800

Big Cat Sex is passionate stuff !
For lions as it is for leopards, jaguars etc : They go on for days doing nothing but having sex ......   and can have a frequency every 15 minutes. Pretty impressive in my opinion ! 

All pictures shot Maasai Mara, Kenya, nov/des 2017, Aug 2018, Sept 2018 and Oct 2018.
Hope you like them !!

Thanks to Big John Siololo and Oltepesi Camp. 

In early morning light

D5, 400 2,0, f/2,8, 1/1000, ISO 320

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/800, ISO 250

A private moment in the high gras

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With low angle !

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Probably a magic moment !

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D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/400, ISO 2000

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/320, ISO 2800

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/800, ISO 1800

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/7,1, 1/800, ISO 1250

Meetoo ??

D5, 600 4,0, f/5,6, 1/640, ISO 1800

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3,1/320, ISO 2800

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/800, ISO 1600

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/400, ISO 2000

The king wants more .... 

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/400, ISO 2000

.... but the queen has lost the feeling .... and is telling the old man to get lost

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/1250, ISO 560

The lady is trying to get rid of her suitor ... and he doesn't`t like the it !

D5, 600 4,0 + 1,4 converter = 850 mm, f/6,3, 1/1250, ISO 560

... and in the end they make cute little cubs ! 

However, if a new male has fought his way to take over the pride he will often kill all the cubs in the pride to have his own offspring.

D5, 400 2,8, f/6,3, 1/800, ISO 2000

Hugging mom !!
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