Did you know that when lions meet to mate, they stay together for a while and travel through the bush as if on a kind of honeymoon? Rhulani's Ranger Ralf presents us with a lion's couple today, and we see a special behavior of the male lion: he is grimacing when smelling something. This grimacing gesture is called "Flehmen".
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