Because the wound in her chest has not fully recovered, female lion Zama cannot hunt large animals but is forced to catch white storks to eat temporarily to have milk to breastfeed her children.
These photos were taken by 46-year-old photographer Jorge Alesanco at Cheetah Tented Camp Safari Park (in Maasai Mara, Kenya).
At that time, the lioness Zama was lurking near the flock of white storks to catch prey.
It is known that due to his chest injury, Zama cannot hunt large animals such as antelopes and hyenas, but can only hunt storks for temporary food.
Currently, Zama is raising a litter of cubs and these cubs are too skinny.
When Zama rushed into the middle of the stork flock, the prey immediately flapped their wings and flew in different directions.
The slowest stork was caught by Zama.
The unfortunate stork tried to struggle but still could not escape Zama’s clenched teeth.
In the near future, when the antelope migration season comes, perhaps Zama will be able to hunt more delicious antelopes, instead of having to eat stork meat like this.