Lions Mating

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania 2019

And this is what male lions will fight and die for -- the right to control and mate with a pride of females. They are only in their prime for a few years and this is their only chance to pass their genes to the next generation. Of course they don't look at it that quite that way, they are simply driven by the strongest instinct other than satisfying hunger.

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