Two cheetah brothers spar in a friendly joust. The Mara/Serengeti ecosystem holds the largest cheetah population in the world.
Lion cubs play by using their mother as a prey. Lion breeding success is low in the Mara and only one in three survive.
Along a small river, a mother lion tenderly carries her two-week-old cub to a safer den.
A young cheetah explores its surroundings, practising an elevation technique that will help it to hunt in the future.
(Source: vogue-ciity, via thesidekiick)
Photo and caption by Dumith Fernando
As the three cheetah cubs at Phinda Game Reserve (KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) played around their watchful mother, one by one they ran up the tree branch and lined up in a beautiful pose, as if to say “we are ready for primetime!” August 2011.
Yawn by Supervliegzus on Flickr.
Leopard by Supervliegzus on Flickr.
Cheetah الفهد الصياد ( In Explore ) by ALdowayan on Flickr.
International Artists runner-up: Cheetah patrol by Everett Duarte
BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011