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Adventures: Roly-poly lion cubs

10/27/2014

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Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
No, this post isn't a field dispatch from East Africa. I wish. But for now the North Carolina Zoo will have to do. We visited these (then 8-week-old) lion cubs there last month and fell in love. I spent a lot of my college years studying biology and animal behavior, so watching family groups interact (even just in a zoo setting) makes me nostalgic for a more adventurous time of life. And watching the siblings tussle with each other reminded me that the behaviors—good and "bad”—I see in my own girls are all just a standard and necessary part of development. It amazed me how much the cubs resembled my human children when they played!
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Jump! (Next to an incredibly vigilant mama.)
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Next time my child bites me, I will remind myself it doesn't hurt as much as it would if my child were a lion.
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Family photo.
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Cuddling with Mom.
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Clockwise: It's so hard to stay awake.
Lion cubs at the North Carolina Zoo. Photography by Calm Cradle Photo & Design
P.S. I've had so much photography work this fall that I've sorely neglected the blog. Hopefully I'll be back more regularly soon to share some of those projects with you. Stay tuned!

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