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Wild life

I cannot imagine living in a world without lions

Once they inhabited most of our world; now we must work to save them from extinction

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

Laikipia

We are privileged to live with lions on the farm. We hear them most nights. We encounter them frequently. Out walking last month, I sensed four lions the instant before I saw them. Adrenaline raised a mane of goose bumps from my skull to my thighs. I should have shouted and advanced on them and certainly not run away.

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