Deidre in the driver’s seat turns around and whispers to me: “Did you hear that?”
I can’t hear anything apart from my heart pounding between my ears. I’m in an open-top Land Rover in an area teeming with lions and my nerves are jangling from a heady mixture of fear and excitement.
We move towards the source of the sound and, eventually, I catch it: a low, cough-like bark that I never would have imagined could have come from a lioness.
“That’s her calling her cubs.”
Minutes later, we see her – a fully grown lioness – and for the next hour follow her as she meanders through the African bush. She is completely unfazed by our presence and at one stage walks so close to the jeep that I physically recoil when she glances up and looks me in the eye.
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Rob McFarland 
Lt2Z6i Stands back from the kbyeaord in amazement! Thanks!