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Maternal instinct: Moving images showing
mother animals carrying their young in their mouths in Kenya
By Rik Sharma
PUBLISHED:| UPDATED:
Caught between the jaws of a leopard is not a position you want to
be in - but if it's your mum it's probably not that bad.
When this leopard cub was picked up between its mother's teeth it delighted London photographer Paul Goldstein who had waited 20 years for the snap.
He has spent several months each year studying and photographing predators in the Masai Mara nature reserve and has captured lions, cheetahs and even a mother hyena carrying their young along the way.
Jigsaw piece: This photo of a leopard carrying her cub is what
Paul Goldstein has been waiting for to complete his collection shot over 20
years
You're coming with
me: A lion mother transports one of her cubs while the other happily bounds
alongside her
In the jaws of the beast:
This cub seems quite comfortable resting between its mother's teeth
But the one photo
which eluded him was that of a mother leopard with her cub in her mouth - until
now.
Mr Goldstein, who
also guides people around the area was not expecting to get the shot he was
looking for because the cub was quite large.
He explained:
'This cub was large to be carried, normally they stop this intimate and
protective process at about five weeks and this cub was well over that.'
But although
getting the leopard at last was satisfying, the most intense experience was
shooting the hyenas.
Up you get: A cheetah
mother picks up her cub and starts carrying it
Settle down: The
mother decides to drop off the baby cheetah later on
Cheaper than the
tube: The cheetah carries her cub across Kenya's Masai Mara
Picked up by the
scruff of the neck: The lioness carries her child through the Kenyan reserve
Please don't roar
mum: Lion cubs like these are carried while very young for their own safety
The photographer,
from Wimbledon, said: 'Perhaps even more remarkable were the new born hyena
pups. This was only a short time after birth, mum had three, immediately ate
one of them then carried these two off to a den.
'This was viewed
from a fair distance and although this natal triage was brutal, it is necessary
for survival of this remarkable yet much maligned predator.
'I feel extremely
privileged to have seen these things in the Masai Mara.'
Animals carry their
young in their mouths when they are newborns to move them from place to place,
and to protect them because they are fragile.
They soon stop
because the baby needs to grow on its own and learn to thrive for itself.
Known by locals as
'The Mara', the reserve is an area which covers 583 square miles.
Look who's back: The
little lion cub follows its mother and its sibling
Happy: This lion cub
seems to be smiling as it is transported across the Masai Mara
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