We came upon this male in the Ngorongoro crater, near the swamps, on a heavy overcast day. He didn't even look at us once and was very fixated on something that we could not see. About an hour later we found him again in the swamps having an epic battle with about 25 hyena!......alas.....we could only hear the confrontation but not see it. We do believe there may have been more lions in there with him......but I counted the 25 muddy hyena that I could see. Now I need to get that battle in the open this year on my return tour!
ISO 1600 at f/6.3 for 1/400 sec. I decided to leave the grass in his mane....debating that and yes....his mane has that reddish color along the fringes.






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or were there females around?


