Show A FAMILY OF LIONS an eye vitue as tells tella how they jact act la in their natural state the large game and natural history of south and southern africa by hon W 11 drummond Dmm mond gives the following account of an eyewitness eye witness which gives a good idea of lion family life 1 I once had the pleasure of unobserved myself watching a lion family feeding I 1 was encamped on the black in zululand luland Zu and toward evening walked out about half a mile from camp I 1 saw a herd of zebra galloping across me and when they were nearly three hundred yards 0 off ff I 1 saw a yellow body flash toward the leader saw lions weight there was a tall tree about sixty yards from the place and anxious to see what went on I 1 walked up to it while the liontas lion was still occupied oe cu too much to look about him and climbed up ile he had by this time quite killed the beautifully striped animal but instead of proceeding to cat it h he a got up and roared vigorously until there was an answer and in a few minutes the lioness accompanied by four whelps came trotting up the same direction as the zebra which no doubt she tried to drive toward her husband they formed a fine picture as they all stood around the carcass whelps tearing it and biting it but unable to get through gh the tough skin then the I 1 lion lay down and the lioness driving her offspring before her did the same four or five yards off upon which he be got up and commencing to eat cat had soon finished a hind leg retiring a few yards on one side as oon soon f as he had done so the lione lioness liones s came up next nest and tore the carcass to shreds bolting huge mouth fuls but not objecting to the whelps eating cating as much as they could find there was a good deal of snarling and growling among these young lions and occasionally a standup stand up fight for a minute but their mother did not take any notice of them axce except p t V to give them a sharp blow with her paw if they got in her way there was now little left of the zebra but a few bones which hundreds of vultures were circling around wanting to pick while almost an equal number hopped awkwardly about on the ground within fifty pr or sixty yards of it and the whole lion family walked quietly away the lioness lion ess leading and the lion after turning his head to see that they were not followed bringing rin the rent |