Lately’s Picture of the Day is “Farewell to the Kings” by way of Robert Henderson. Location: Serengeti Nationwide Park, Tanzania.
“Farewell to Bob Jr. and Marley, the Lion Kings of the Serengeti for over seven years,” writes Henderson. “Bob Jr. and Marley had been killed in March 2023, in separate assaults by way of a coalition of rival men seeking to take over the pleasure. There was an outpouring of grief from everywhere the arena as phrase of the deaths has unfold to park guests and photographers who had the enjoyment of encountering the lions in individual, and plenty of extra who knew them most effective from their photographs.
“Bob Jr. and Marley had been African black-maned lions whose sire was once the well-known authentic Bob Marley. The brothers shaped a coalition that shared a big pleasure of women folk and plenty of cubs. Marley was once the extra good-looking, whilst Bob Jr., many would say, was once the extra magnificent member of the coalition. Bob Jr. had a far darker mane, many scars and really darkish eyes. He at all times regarded offended (and hungry) apart from when he was once nuzzling his brother.
“Their house vary was once the Central House of the Serengeti Nationwide Park in Tanzania close to Namiri Plains. They had been with out query the 2 maximum strikingly photogenic lions I’ve ever encountered. The fast grass savannah within the Central Serengeti house the place we had been following the lions remaining November were burned over in a managed burn a couple of weeks prior. The grass were burned all the way down to an excessively brief, reddish-brown stubble. There was once a powerful breeze that was once blowing ash and mud into the lions’ eyes, and their nictitating membranes had been midway up, making their gaze that a lot more hanging because the lions wandered out and in of the restricted to be had coloration.
“A unique due to our information Anderson Kayle for spending all day with me and on into the night time monitoring the brothers for the easiest shot.”
Canon EOS R6, EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM extender lens at 400mm, hand-held. Publicity: 1/1250 sec., f/4, ISO 1600.
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At first Printed Would possibly 2, 2023