{"id":1669126,"date":"2017-09-26T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walkthewilderness.net\/?p=9633"},"modified":"2024-11-03T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T12:27:23","slug":"suckling-african-lion-cubs-in-amboseli-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/suckling-african-lion-cubs-in-amboseli-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Suckling African Lion cubs in Amboseli National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

On one of our evening game drives at the Amboseli National Park, we spotted a couple of Lion cubs sitting close to the road.<\/p>\n

There was not a single Lioness in sight. I guess most of them were on a hunt.<\/p>\n

The cubs looked hungry and listless, so we left them to mind their business and headed in search of other game.<\/p>\n

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Suckling African Lion cubs in Amboseli National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not far away we saw a huge tusker calmly grazing. The sheer size of his tusks was a captivating sight so we inched closer and turned off the ignition of the vehicle.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t have to wait for long before he moved closer to us giving us this full frame composition of his tusks.<\/p>\n

We were surprised to spot this Montagu\u2019s Harrier sitting close to the road and gave us a few clean pictures before flying away.<\/p>\n

As the light started to fade, we drove back to the lodge and that\u2019s when we spotted a flock of Sand Grouse as they were finding a good spot by the side of the road to roost for the evening.<\/p>\n

And in fading light we passed through the area where we had seen the Lion cubs at the start of the safari. They were still there.<\/p>\n

But this time around the Lionesses had returned and the cubs were upbeat. While we spent a few minutes observing them, one of the cubs crawled over to a Lioness and started suckling.<\/p>\n

This was the highlight of the day for us and made it as the feature image (first picture) of this post.<\/p>\n

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On one of our evening game drives at the Amboseli National Park, we spotted a couple of Lion cubs sitting close to the road. There was not a single Lioness in sight. I guess most of them were on a hunt. The cubs looked hungry and listless, so we left them to mind their business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":2196960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-African-Lion.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Suckling African Lion cubs in Amboseli National Park","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8988,1181,2440,397],"class_list":["post-1669126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-amboseli-national-park","tag-grouse","tag-lion","tag-lion-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}