Cheetah, Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Kenya
This female cheetah begins a hunt. She was successful in catching a gazelle right after this photo was taken. She has one cub left to care for. The others were killed by lions.
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Mother Leopard, Kenya
A mother leopard rests in a tree while her cub sits on the ground below her. If you look closely, you will see she has at least three engorged ticks on her face. Her cub has at least one on its face as well.
A Lioness Carries Her Cub to a New Den, Kenya
A few months ago I posted a photo of this lioness carrying her cub. This is a different photo and I cropped it to better show their faces, especially the little cub’s tongue hanging out of its mouth. The photo was taken in the Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Kenya.
Lioness with Cub, Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Kenya
A lioness carries her cub to a new den in the Ol Kinyei Conservancy, Kenya. Mother lions normally keep their new cubs away from the pride for the first six to eight weeks of life and move them fairly frequently during that period to minimize the ability of other wildlife to smell where they are.
Badger, Yellowstone National Park
In the spring of 2009 this mother badger and her three cubs were very popular photo subjects in Yellowstone. Her den was fairly close to the road. She crossed the road often and I worried that she’d get hit. I don’t think she ever did get hit, at least at that den site, but an awful lot of wildlife is killed on Yellowstone’s roads each year.
