Photo: Bobby-Jo Clow/Caters News
People: They may be king of the jungle, but on this particular day on the Serengeti, these lions reacted to insects just like we do.
Rather than stick around for the pests to nip at them, this pride of lions – 15 of them to be exact – retreated to a sausage tree. Fortunately, their flight was captured on camera for all of us to gawk at.
Photo: Bobby-Jo Clow/Caters News
In a blog for AfricaGeographic.com, photographer Bobby-Jo Clow explains how it all went down – or up, as it were. Due to rains in Tanzania at the time of her safari trip, grass on the Serengeti was at record heights, a boon for the local insect population.
“Lions climb the trees to escape the insects on the long grass,” Clow writes. “Our guide informed us that it is not common to see lions in trees, especially 15 of them at once, and this was indeed a special sighting.”
Hilarity ensued as the big kitties climbed the tree limbs in an unwitting approximation of domestic cats everywhere.
Photo: Bobby-Jo Clow/Caters News
“Watching the lions trying to reposition themselves in the tree was very comical, as they are very clumsy and lack the leopard’s climbing skills,” Clow writes. “One lioness had an incredibly rotund belly and she was letting it all hang out whilst perched on a tree.”
To see more of the stunning pictures, visit Bobby-Jo Clow’s Facebook page.
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