She Lost Her Own
After her territory was invaded and her cubs were killed, the lioness just lost her cubs to a man from a rival pride. This baby calf had been adopted because she had been grieved by their deaths, and it now functioned as a substitute…
It Wasn’t What We Imagined
If you expected the lioness to eat the antelope for breakfast, that’s understandable. Donovan, on the other hand, was looking forward to it: “But it never arrived and began cleaning the calf.” You never know what will happen next in nature because it is so mysterious.