Male lions tussle over a wildebeest carcass. 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. There certainly was not a lot left of the carcass as these male lions tussle over a wildebeest carcass that was effectively the head, a bit of skin and the backbone. As they tussled the jackals and hyenas scavenged what they could then running away with the bits they dared to take from the lions. The jackals were barking constantly. The antics of the hyenas and jackals made for an entertaining scene.
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