Highlights for this day include watching a female lion take down a young wildebeest just yards away and then watching the male come and unfairly take over the scene.
The lion is one of the big cats in the Felidae family and a genus Panthera member. It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996, as populations in African range countries declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Lion populations are untenable outside designated protected areas. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes of concern. The West African lion population is listed as Critically Endangered since 2016.
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