PHOTO OF THE DAY August 8, 2005  

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Where Zambezi River, Africa
When 1996
Photographer Chris Johns

Lions spend up to 21 hours a day sleeping, napping, and cooling off, interspersed with short bouts of activity. Adult lions often frolic with their cubs to promote coordination and basic survival skills.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October, 1997 National Geographic magazine)


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