Since the Denver Zoo's twin lion cubs were back inside their den by the time I got to their compound last week, I decided to make another reservation for this past Saturday morning to try one more time to get a photograph of them together. But it turned out that they were in the main lion compound - named Predator's Ridge - and were sound asleep behind their also snoozing mother. I decided to make another round through the zoo, but when I came back to Predator's Ridge one of the cubs was sleeping against the wall of the compound, still hidden behind the mother, and according to a couple also wanting to get a photograph, the other was sleeping in the opposite corner, out of sight. That couple said they had been waiting for those cubs to wake up and come out for 45 minutes, but they finally gave up and left. Eventually, the mother got up and moved to a different location, and the hidden lion cub joined it's twin just before they both nodded off again, and I was able to take the photograph on the left.
While I was waiting the 20 hours or so it took to get some sort of shot, I read the information sign next to me that gave various facts about lions. It turns out that lions can get enough food for the day by eating for two hours straight, and afterwards sleep up to 20 hours, no doubt what the lioness in the photo on the right was doing. That means that photographers have just two hours over an entire day to get a decent photo. Life is so unfair. Can't these damn animals just cooperate?
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