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A lion roams in Chobe National Park, a wildlife conservation area near Kasane, Botswana. PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANS LANTING, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

Lions hunt buffalo in the wetlands of Duba Plains Camp in Botswana’sOkavango Delta, where National Geographic Explorers-in-ResidenceBeverly and Dereck Joubert researched their film and book Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo. PHOTOGRAPH BY BEVERLY JOU

A lioness captures her prey, a buffalo calf. The photo appeared in Beverly and Dereck Joubert’s 2006 National Geographic article about the Okavango Delta. PHOTOGRAPH BY BEVERLY JOUBERT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

Lions play in the Okavango Delta. PHOTOGRAPH BY BEVERLY JOUBERT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

A lion drinks from a watering hole on Chief’s Island, in the Okavango Delta’s Moremi Game Reserve. PHOTOGRAPH BY SERGIO PITAMITZ, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

A lion relaxes on a tree branch at Lake Manyara National Park in northern Tanzania. PHOTOGRAPH BY SKIP BROWN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

Lion cubs rest near a watering hole in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

A lion sleeps in the plains of Serengeti National Park. The picture was taken by a camera-mounted robot car. PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

Lions search for prey in Serengeti National Park. PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID GRIFFIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

A lioness sits with her cub in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK C. ROSS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

Lionesses and cubs feed in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley. PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANS LANTING, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

A lion wanders the dry Nossob riverbed in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, near the border of two protected areas: South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park. PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS JOHNS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIV

A lioness descends a tree at Masai Mara National Reserve, in the Narok County of Kenya. The reserve is contiguous with Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. PHOTOGRAPH BY BEVERLY JOUBERT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

A lion rests in the grass of the Serengeti plains. PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

A close-up of a male lion at Duba Plains Camp in the Okavango Delta reveals scars of old wounds. PHOTOGRAPH BY BEVERLY JOUBERT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE

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15 Intimate Portraits of Lions

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