小狮子几个星期前的消瘦身形。
Although the rainy season is generally a time of plenty, it seems that the abundance of young animals like impala and wildebeest was actually to this lion’s detriment. I have watched the Sparta pride make a few kills recently, and each one has been a young animal (a zebra foal and two wildebeest calves were their prey on the three separate occasions I have seen them hunt successfully in the last month). Although catching and killing a small calf is easier for the lions, what it means is that there is not quite enough meat to adequately satisfy the pride, and unfortunately, since the injured young male has been limping along a few hundred metres behind the pride on their night forays, he has always arrived too late to share in the spoils of the kill. He has been unable to race ahead to join in the feeding, and even if he could, in his depleted condition it is doubtful whether he’d have been able to muscle his way in to grab a portion of the meat. Had the pride brought down bigger, adult animals, there would most likely have been sufficient meat left over for him once the rest of the pride had fed.
As you will see in the below video, the Mhangeni pride are bringing down much larger animals, such as zebra, which provide more than enough meat for their pride:
雨季本来食物是充足的，但是羚羊和黑斑羚的幼崽才是这头小狮子消瘦的原因。斯巴达这几天捕到的都是斑马幼崽啊小羚羊之类的，肉不够分，而且小狮子落在狮群后面恐怕赶不上美味，赶上了也挤不进去，它到得总是太完，抢不到肉。人家查拉拉小分队总是捕到斑马日子过得很好呢！