Lionesses and cubs from one of the prides scientists observed in the study at Etosha National Park. (Dr. Nancy Barker via SWNS)
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Dr. Nancy Barker with an immobilized adult male lion from a pride in the Chobe-Linyanti floodplains. Barker took morphological measurements, identification photographs, and blood, tissue and faecal samples before fitting each collar. (Dr. Nancy Barker via SWNS)
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A young spotted hyena at Etosha National Park scopes Barker out. At the time, Dr. Nancy Barker was setting up a bait station to immobilize and collar the matriarch of the hyena clan. (Dr. Nancy Barker via SWNS)
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