Today is Wold Lion Day – a day to celebrate one of my favorite cats!
#LetLionsLive #worldlionday
WorldLionDay 2017
The Montagues and Capulets
As in Romeo and Juliet this Lioness has no way to get united with her Romeo. As one can see in the video the young female is in esterous and is keen to mate, but the fences between two game reserve prevent the males from getting to here (the roars in the background are from the males on the neighboring reserve).
The lady is obviously not interested in the perfectly good dominant male on her side of the reserve. The grass seems always greener on the other side of the fence.
Enjoy the video and your week!
Video by Christian Sperka, Resident Wildlife Photographer Thanda Safari
Asiatic Lion (SG16)
I have a lot of images of African Lions, but only a few of the very rare Asiatic Lion (from the Zurich Zoo).
I just uploaded 17 of them – taken between 2009 and 2016 to www.sperka.biz/sg16.
More species gallery available online at http://www.sperka.biz/sg.
LIONS – a special series!
These are twenty Lion images, which I have posted as a special series on Instagram over the last few weeks. They are some of my favorite Lion picture which I have taken since 2001.
I hope you will enjoy them – Have a good week!
PS: I am save back in South Africa and tonorrow afternoon I will be back at Thanda Safari…
SUNday
One of Thanda’s Lionesses in the most beautiful morning light. Have a good SUNday 
🙂
Picture details: African Lion | Location: Thanda Safari, South Africa
Canon 1D Mark IV | Canon EF500 f4L | AV | ISO 200 | 1/500s | f/4 | 0eV | WB 6500K – post processing corrected | free-hand
Lion+
I have just uploaded a few more Lion images taken between 2006 and 2017. Have a look at http://www.sperka.biz/sg1 (total 76 images).
This is one of many species gallery available online at http://www.sperka.biz/sg
Please contact me at info@sperka.com in case you are interested in publishing any of these images or if you would like to license any image for printing (for personal or commercial use).
These are some of the newly uploaded images!
Lions …
I am currently working on an update of my online Lion picture gallery (http://www.sperka.biz/sg1).
This is one of the images which will soon appear with many others on my gallery site.
Have a good week! Stay tuned for more updates …
A helicopter!
No big story – just one of my favorite pictures – Thanda’s dominant male Lion watching a helicopter!
2 Month Old
During yesterday morning’s game drive we spotted the newest additions to the Thanda South Pride of Lions (seen for the first time, ever). The mother must have introduced the two cubs (+/- 2 month old) very recently to the Pride. The two youngster were very shy at their first vehicle encounter and went into thick bush to wait for the ‘large unknown animal’ to disappear. I was able to take two images before they moved off. Very soon they will get used to the vehicles, observing their mum’s reaction – or lack thereof – to our game viewers. I am sure there will be great sightings to come!
Just over the fence …
What do you see when you look out your window past your garden fence?
Well, for me most of the time it is the beautiful scenery, a nearby waterhole and often general game, like Giraffes, Zebras, Wildebeest …
But sometimes I see a cat strolling by …
This week it was a Lioness on her way to get a drink at the waterhole. I jumped into my car, drove around to the waterhole and got a few shots of her having a drink 🙂
