PHOTO OF THE DAY July 7, 2005  

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Where Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa
When 1997
Photographer Chris Johns

The main role of males within a lion pride is the defense of family and territory.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Africa's Wild Dogs," May 1999, National Geographic magazine)


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