Guarded

Photo taken in August, 2013 @ Landgoed Hoenderdaell, The Netherlands

A shot of Nero lying awake while his companion Masrya is asleep before him.

Read more about these incredibly dapper African Lions in the  journal I wrote after my visit to the zoo: fav.me/d6iyvc0

Species: African Lion (Afrikaanse leeuw)

 Latin name: Panthera Leo

 Originates from Africa and West Asia.

 Current status: Vulnerable

  Did you know:  

 …It is the second-largest living Cat, after the Tiger, but the tallest – at the shoulder – of all living cats.

 …Lions are the only members of the Cat family to display obvious sexual dimorphism, meaning that males and females look distinctly different.

 …Lions in captivity tend to be larger than Lions in the wild.

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