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Nestled in grasses off of the Zambezi River, a lion and her cub relax as evening sets in. Lion mothers give birth to two to four cubs at a time, on average.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down the Zambezi," October 1997, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Chris Johns/NGS

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