| "Whereas
the female members of a lion pride may stay together for their entire
lives, the dominant male, whose job it is to protect the pride and
its territory and mate with the females, is often driven off by
a younger, stronger male after only a few years. Two magnificent
male African lions are depicted here at the moment before physical
contact, the challenger hoping to wrest control of the pride from
its master. Each is putting on his fiercest display, hoping the
other will back down before an actual fight becomes necessary. I
like to think that that is what will happen here, as these confrontations
can often result in the death of the loser, and I find the loss
of one of these awesome creatures to be very sad, indeed."
- Rosetta |
