We came across this pregnant lioness up amongst the boulders of a kopje in the central Serengeti region of Tanzania. As previously mentioned, female lions will take themselves off alone into the hills shortly before giving birth and looking at this girl it doesn’t look like that’s too far off. For lions, the gestation period is around four months and she could have up to six cubs, but two to four is the average. However, only around 20 percent of cubs will make it to maturity, a number which is also weighted in the favour of females, with an average of only 1 in 8 males reaching adulthood in most areas.
