Species: Lion | Location: Greater Makalali Private Reserve, South Africa
Two young male lions play while eating from a giraffe kill in Greater Makalali Private Reserve, South Africa. Our guide shared that lions learn to hunt by engaging in rough and tumble play during their youth.
This photograph is one of the several thousand photographs taken on a Summer 2016 Stanford University BOSP Overseas Seminar to South Africa. We spent our time in private reserves and national parks in the northeastern part of South Africa, and I was one of seven photographers, working in partnership with one of seven writers to pursue a photojournalistic story on the human impact of poaching. I went on countless game drives (safaris!) and interviewed nature reserve owners, park rangers, and an ex-poacher, learning to adjust my approach to bring out their authentic feelings and expressions and reporting their unheard perspectives. Exploring on foot the villages that surround Kruger National Park helped me better understand the conditions that create and support poachers from these communities.
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