PHOTO OF THE DAY March 29, 2005  

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Where Africa
When 1998
Photographer Chris Johns

A female lion's primary responsibilities are hunting and cub rearing within her pride.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Cheetahs: Ghosts of the Grasslands," December 1999, National Geographic magazine)


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