Lions on a wildebeest carcass with jackals and hyenas. It was still not quite light when we reached the plain in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy of Kenya’s Maasai Mara. In the distance we could hear quite a commotion with hyenas yipping and jackals barking. Was this the scene of a lion kill? We headed towards the sounds. We could now see there were three male lions (the Hamerkop males) were finishing off a wildebeest kill. It seemed unlikely that they had made the kill because although there was very little of the wildebeest left, their bellies were not full. We speculated that their father (Osupat, the dominant male) had made the kill and he had his fill and then let his sons eat. Lionesses lay near by watching as the males had their fill. Hyenas and jackals milled around hoping to pick up scraps, the jackals barking away. Finally, the male lions on a wildebeest carcass decided there was nothing left to eat and left the scene to rest up in the nearby bushes.
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