탄자니아 세렌게티 국립공원 사자: Serengeti Lion

내쇼날 지오그라피 잡지사에서 취재한 "Serengeti Lion"입니다.

아프리카의 중간 지역으로 동쪽 해안가에 위치한 탄자니아의

Serengeti National Park은 유네스코 지정의 세계문화 보호지역으로 지정된 곳입니다.

광활한 초원, 사반나, 열대우림, 강등이 있는 동물서식지로는 천혜의 지역으로 

백오십만 마리의 영양(羚羊)(wildebeest)과 이십오만 마리의 얼룩말은

매년 철따라 이동하며 나일강의 악어와 수많은 동물들로 

지구상 가장 자연 상태의 동물들을 볼 수 있는 곳입니다.

해마다 많은 관광객들이 세렌게티 공원을 와서 숙박을 하며 관광을 즐기는데 

백미는 역시 밀림의 왕 사자 관광입니다.

사진사 Nick Nichols와 비데오 작가 Nathan Williamson이 2년이라는 긴 기간 동안 

정성과 공을 들여서 제작한 귀한 작품을 소개합니다. 

이 동영상은 좀 긴편인데 간략하게 보는 방법을 설명하겠습니다.

가.아래 링크를 클릭하시면 첫페이지가 나오는데 네모 상자 안에 있는 

글씨인 "Explore"를 클릭하시면 동영상이 시작됩니다.

그리고 좌우 끝에는 화살표가 있는데 보고 있는 것이 재방영되면 

오른쪽 화살표를 클릭하면 다음 동영상으로 이동합니다.

그 뒤로는 "Look"을 누르면 새 것을 보게 됩니다.

나.그리고 하단에는 영어로 Caption(자막)은 간략한 해설을 담고 있고

Commentary를 누르면 영어 해설을 듣게 되고 

가운데 있는 Scroll은 진행 중인 동영상의 스냅 사진들이 숫자대로 있어 볼 수 있습니다.

한 여름에 가서 즐기는 세렌게티 국립공원의 사파리 여행을 마음껏 즐기면서 

하나님의 아름다운 세상과 동물의 세계를 보십시오. 

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Understanding the Lives of Lion

Serengeti National Park encompasses 5,700 square miles of grassy plains and woodlands near the northern border of Tanzania, and is home to more than 3,500 lions grouped into a couple dozen prides. Photographer Nick Nichols and videographer Nathan Williamson made several extended trips to the Serengeti between July 2011 and January 2013, determined to break new visual ground in their coverage of the Serengeti Lion. The pair used cameras mounted on small remote-control vehicles to make images up close and at low angles, as well as hand-held cameras for both day and nighttime shots. Nichols shot 242,000 images and Williamson recorded 200 hours of video, often while lying on the floor of a specially outfitted Land Rover. The photographs are featured in the August issue of National Geographic magazine, as well as online, part of a truly remarkable multimedia packagefeaturing fullscreen video, photographs, text, and audio. National Geographic was kind enough to share the following ten photographs from "The Serengeti Lion" on National Geographic's website atngm.com/serengeti-lion. 

Photographer Nick Nichols made several extended trips to the Serengeti between July 2011 and January 2013, determined to break new visual ground in the coverage of the Serengeti Lion. Here, C-Boy, a dark-maned male lion defending his interests, confronts the peril of lion-on-lion violence on a daily (and nightly) basis. Four years ago, C-Boy barely survived a fight for dominance with three other males.(© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

The Vumbi females -- their pride name is Swahili for "dust" -- kill a warthog they've dragged from its burrow. Such small meals help bridge the lean, hungry, dry season, when cubs may otherwise starve. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

The Vumbis rest on a kopje, or rocky outcrop, near a favorite water hole. Lions use kopjes as havens and outlooks on the plains. When the rains bring green grass, wildebeests arrive in vast herds. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

Hildur, C-Boy's partner, frequently makes a long run to visit the Simba East pride. A coalition that controls two prides must maintain vigilance over both. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

Dry season is hard on everyone. Vumbi females, stressed and fiercely protective of their young, get cross with C-Boy, though he's one of the resident fathers. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

Cubs of the Simba East pride: too young to kill but old enough to crave meat. Adult females, and sometimes males, do the hunting. Zebras and wildebeests rank high as chosen prey in the rainy season. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

C-Boy mates with a Kibumbu pride female. After fathering cubs, a resident male can be displaced by other males. His young offspring will then be killed by the new males or left to die. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

C-Boy and a Vumbi female relax between matings. During estrus a female may be monopolized for days by a single male consort. Dark manes correlate with robustness, and dark-maned studs like C-Boy are preferred. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

Older cubs like these Vumbi youngsters are raised together as a creche, or nursery group. Pride females, united in the cause of rearing a generation, nurse and groom their own and others' offspring. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic) 

A male often asserts his prerogatives. C-Boy feasts on a zebra while the Vumbi females and cubs wait nearby, warned off by his low growls. Their turn will come. (© Michael Nichols/National Geographic)