They're healthy and strong.

Somehow they'd managed to make it through the long, dry season.

On the endless wait for the returning herds, the young male now has the beginnings of a main and those still limping.

The female has grown new for over her black patches.

Now at last with endless food around them, the lion cubs of the time and the energy to play on dhe, they can relax in a way that only lions know how.