Lions are lazy animals. Believe that?
Yes, we have seen the lions sleeping in the zoo enclosures. In the zoo, most animals relax and sleep. So we can't conclude that lions are lazy. How to prove or disprove this observation?
We didn't believe it till we visited the wildlife parks in Africa. As is well known, the wildlife parks in East Africa (as well as South Africa) are huge and teeming with variety of wildlife. African lion is one of the animals sighted there easily. We, a group of eight college buddies and spouses then in our 60s, had visited four parks in Tanzania and Kenya. Lions were sighted in all the parks listed below except Lake Manyara.
- Tarangire National Park
- Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
- Serengeti National Park
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Lions belong to the cat family
- Second in size to Tigers in cat family
- Found in sub-Saharan Africa and India
- Symbol of courage and strength
- Roar can be heard up to 8 kms away
- Live in grasslands, scrub, or open woodlands for ease of finding its prey
- Male lions have manes, the impressive fringe of long hair that encircles their heads.
- Live in groups called a 'pride'
- A pride may have 3 to 40 lions—including up to three or four males, a dozen or so females, and their young.
- Each pride is dominated by one male
- All females in a pride are related and rear the cubs at the same time
- Females do the hunting mostly as a team
- Males mark the territory with their urine and guard it
- Once fed (adult consumes about 20 pounds of meat a day), the whole pride sleeps together. See our pictures later.
- Young lions don't hunt till they are about a year old
No. |
Name |
Caption for KBG-72 Contest |
1 |
Aayush
Paroolkar(11yrs) |
Wildly
Free Glare. |
2 |
Aayush
Paroolkar |
The Look! |
3 |
Ajai
Bhumri |
ऐक और ऐक गयारह |
4 |
Amandeep
Kaur |
Be
the lion of your forest. |
5 |
Amitabh
Bhargava |
यहाॅ के हम सिकंदर |
6 |
Anand
Jain |
Hum
bhi twins hain! |
7 |
Arnab
Bandyopadhyay |
Sultans
of Sawannah… |
8 |
Avinash
Tiwari |
Duniya
hame loin ke nam se janti hai. |
9 |
Avinash
Tiwari |
Ek
myan mein do talwar? |
10 |
BC
Jayaprakash |
Power
and Majesty. |
11 |
Bharat
Ladha |
Saath
aur saathi ka santosh, ankho me jhalakta hai. |
12 |
BR
Natarajan |
Rab
ne bana di Jodi |
13 |
CD
Sawant |
Hum
dono. |
14 |
C
Raghuram |
One
rule, We rule! |
15 |
Deepak
Jena |
Anger
is fear in disguise. |
16 |
Deepak
Jena |
Anger
is only one letter short of Danger. |
17 |
Deepak
Jena |
Just
take a pic and let us go. We both are happy here. |
18 |
GB
Sethi |
Thank
you friends, you are very caring. |
19 |
GB
Sethi |
Kab
se tik-tiki laga ke aap ke intezar mein! |
20 |
Geeta
Bhargava |
Hum
prem ke pujari! |
21 |
GR
Sreenivasan |
Lions
are dangerous only when they are hungry, once satiated they are quite
harmless. |
22 |
J
Ramamoorty |
You
dare not intrude on our privacy |
23 |
Jaishankar |
Royalty
in communion. |
24 |
KV
Ramachandran |
Poor
guys, let them shoot to their hearts
fill |
25 |
LS
Bhargava |
इस जंगल में सिर्फ दो ही राजा, एक मैं और एक तू। |
26 |
Manju
Khaitan |
जंगल की अर्थव्यवस्था जो भी हो..."
मैं कभी घास नहीं खाऊँगा, यह मेरा अहंकार नहीं है, बात बस इतनी सी है कि मैं खुद को पहचानता हूँ कि "मैं कौन हूँ।" |
27 |
Manu
Bhatnagar |
So glad we're blending in... don't think they can see us! |
28 |
Narendra Soni |
आसमां से भी न दबे हम |
29 |
Naresh Kumar |
Talaash. |
30 |
Neelima Paroolkar |
दोस्त - दोस्त ना रहा प्यार प्यार ना रहा !! |
31 |
Nidhi
Bhargava |
Listen to the power of silence |
32 |
Nitin
Dhavare |
"Hope they Gpay us 5K each for the pics
!" |
33 |
Nitin
Gairola |
Brothers of Ngorongoro. |
34 |
NN
Pashupathy |
Waiting for someone to take selfies |
35 |
NN
Pashupathy |
Waiting for selfie shoots and dinner! |
36 |
Poonam
Bhargava |
Double
trouble |
37 |
Poonam
Bhargava |
Anybody
dare challenge our supremacy ! |
38 |
Prabha
Shankar |
Na
jane kis ka intezar |
39 |
Prabhat
K Jindal |
Ek
Duje Ke Liye |
40 |
Prabhat
K Jindal |
Wah
Kya Jodi |
41 |
Pradeep
Siwach |
Bhai
ho to aisa |
42 |
Prashant
Jadenavar |
Our
Silence! Our Pride! |
43 |
Radhika
Sareen |
अन बान, अफ्रीका की शान |
44 |
Radhika
Sareen |
रेश्मा और शेरा |
45 |
Raghuraj
Bhargava |
Hum
saath saath hain! |
46 |
Rajendra
Singh |
Welcome
to our abode! |
47 |
Rajnesh
Gossain |
Ferocious
friends |
48 |
Rajnesh
Gossain |
Teaming
twins. |
49 |
Ramanand
Baliga |
"Sher"ing together! |
50 |
Ranajit
Sen |
Proud
of my pride. |
51 |
Rashmi
Bhargava |
Iss Jungle mai hum do sher |
52 |
RB
Dhavare |
Friedly look-outs for the same target...!! |
53 |
Ritu
Bhargava |
शान से वो रहते है जो शेर होते है।बाकी सब तो मिट्टी के ढेर होते हैं। |
54 |
Ritu
Bhargava |
यहां के हम सिकंदर। |
55 |
Shereen
Sultana |
To be where you belong is a blessing! |
56 |
Shravan
Laddha |
Pushpa-- jhukega naheen! |
57 |
Shyamala
Charyulu |
Eagerly waiting for the visitors. |
58 |
Shyamala
Charyulu |
Born Free but visiting them is not free |
59 |
SR
Murari |
"Two's company |
60 |
Subhashish
Roy |
You guys are back again |
61 |
Sujata
Das |
The lion sleeps tonight! |
62 |
Supradeep
Sen |
Looks great but keep at a distance |
63 |
Susmita
Ganguly |
One with Nature. |
64 |
Swayam
Misra |
We got our vaccines - Social Distancing and Masks
Not Needed Anymore |
65 |
Swayam
Misra |
Elections are here - do we form a coalition? |
66 |
Unknown |
Love is being together. |
67 |
Vanita
Vandan Singh |
Wow! |
68 |
Veeky
Baths |
जिंदगी छोटी हो या लम्बी खुद्दारी से भरी होनी चाहिए! चाहे कोई भी दौर हो, शेर जैसी मदमस्त रवानी होनी चाहिए. |
69 |
Vinay
Prasad |
We do
not disturb you. But you do it constantly. |
70 |
Vinod
Dhanuka |
Focus
on Goal |
71 |
Vishweshwaran |
Born
Free Friends Forever' |
72 |
Vishweshwaran |
Together
we will conquer the future |
73 |
Yogesh |
The
"MIGHTY" Affair |
'Listen to the power of Silence' was the winning caption given by Nidhi Bhargava. She is no stranger to KBG readers having won the Contest several times. She creates designs with paper, jute, cloth or anything reusable. An environmentalist, she loves to be with Nature. Her caption conveys the importance of silence in our lives.
Bharat Ladha has won the KBG Caption Contest earlier too. An engineer from BITS Pilani, he lives in Vidisha MP in the lap of Nature. His caption in Hindi साथ और साथी का संतोश आँखों में झलकता है means 'The eyes reflect the satisfaction of company and togetherness'.
Our congratulations to all the Winners. Special thanks to our Jury members Anchita and Akanksha from California.
Stupendous shots
ReplyDeleteThanks Ron.
DeleteVery informative on wildlife, thank you Harsh
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DeleteGreat photos !
ReplyDeleteThanks much General.
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