Sure, everybody says what goes on at home is nobody’s business but those in the house. But everybody WANTS to know what really goes on. Enter the Cubcam – a camera that captures the images of the secret life of lions and their cubs. Be careful of what you want to know, you might just find out.

Lion Cub Roaring? Or Smiling?

Little guys sneak up on something hiding in the grass. The camera is hidden in elephant dung (how’d you like to have that job?)

The idea for the closeups go to Anup and Manoj Shah, and their sidekick, Carla.

“I am most satisfied with the images which show the personality of the lions.
There is one image of three lion cubs in the Ol Kiombo pride. They look slightly bold and a little apprehensive but that is exactly what a lion cub is.”

Lion cubs from the Ol Liombo pride in the Masai Mara, Kenya

The cameras were triggered by movement nearby and were placed near watering holes. We get it now, it’s kinky. These guys just really wanted to see the animals strip down and take a bath.

Lion cub trapped by a herd of Cape Buffalo

“OOoo! Who’s that guy with the camera?” said Antoniette (Tony the Tiger’s sister).
Doesn’t matter. If it goes click, we’ll have him over for dinner and he can be the main course.”

A mature male lion close up

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Global cooling in Kenya? Well, it’s definitely not getting warmer everywhere!

There was a hailstorm in Kenya, about 220km from Nairobi. The heavy hailstorm fell on a deforested hillside in Gikingi Village. Snow followed to children’s delight and snowmen were … well, nothing about the snowmen. Not enough of the white stuff. But perhaps for the first time ever, Kenyans discovered what a cold drink tastes like, no?

“I have not seen such a thing ever since I was born,” said one resident of Nyahururu.

“The hailstones falling on the ground joined together to form expansive sheets of ice or snow flakes occupying a large area, 30 acres,” Kenya’s Meteorological Department said.

There’s got to be a scientist, sophisticated or otherwise reading GP who can explain to me in terms I can understand (remember, I am slow) how snow or in that case ice, can fall in Kenya which sits just 1 degree south of the equator.

Even if I don’t get an explanation, Kenyans had a treat for a day. Now where’s Santa in the middle of summer when you need him?

Sources: 1, 2

I am not pretending for a moment that Kenya is the kid and the U. S. or any other ‘developed’ nation is the adult. It’s the other way around. Kenyans have been here much longer than we ‘Westerners’.

However, the fact that the Kenyan government has a blue print for renewable energy – Kenya Energy Sector Environment Program (KEEP) - gives pause to wonder. It’s definitely the ‘under-developed‘ leading the ‘developed‘ no?

KEEP wants to -

1. phase out importing telephone poles
2. preserve the nation’s water catchment despite population pressure
3. remove existing barriers and constraints to adoption of efficiency and conservation technologies
4. begin switching from reliance on charcoal for fuel to promoting commercial tree growth
5. 85% of their planned new capacity to come from clean geothermal and hydro renewable sources

Go, Kenya, go!

Show the rest of the world how to do it.

Image by eir@si