[caption id="attachment_5824" align="alignleft" width="448" caption="Counting lions in the Masai Mara in 2005."] [/caption]On the evening of October 6th, 2005, I drove a cream-colored pickup along a bumpy, dusty track deep inside Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, just west of the Mara River and less than 10km north of the border with Tanzania and the Serengeti National Park. Scanning the endless field of red oat grass extending from the top of the opposite bank of a seasonal creek, my eyes suddenly tracked to a flicker of movement. I hit the brakes, brought my binoculars to my eyes, and held my breath. [More]














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