Female lion in Amboseli National Park, west of Namanga, Kenya
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: V 4 MAM 92.4 EE 59
label: General
content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
label: Local Note
content: 57938 28
label: Local Note
content: Frame value is 27.
label: Local Note
content: Slide No. V 4 MAM 92.4 EE 59
name: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
label: Collection Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Kenya
topic: label: Topic
content: Mammals
label: Topic
content: Animals -- Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
setName: label: See more items in
content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Kenya
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 25154
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: In 2008 there are approximately 60 lions in and around Amboseli National Park over a 580 square kilometre area, and most of the year there are 40 lions actually within the park. A stable population of 60 lions will have three to five maned lions, three to five sub-adult males, 25 to 30 females, and 22 to 27 juveniles and cubs (Schaller). A male lion will have grown an acceptable mane by the time it is four years old and can be expected to survive in good condition until it is about twelve. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.