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“Pic of the Week”, May 1, 2015: Paw-prints in the sand, Botswana
There’s something about the presence of a lion that tickles the primitive warning centers of our brain. I guess it’s the old “prey” warning in us, because the hair began to rise on the back of my neck when I saw these paw-prints in the sand.
We were up for an early morning game drive and not far from our cabin I encountered these paw-prints. They were huge — the diameter of a small grapefruit! They clearly had been made by a big cat, likely a lion (possibly a leopard, I suppose). No one had seen or heard the animal during the night and we had no idea where it was, although I imagine it was well on its way by …