Perhaps we
shouldn’t call him Blackleg. He is certainly no con artist or trickster. But he
is a marked lion nonetheless. From the day he was born the fur over the entire
length of his inner right foreleg from under the chest to paw, has been
uniformly pitch black.
She is one
of the four cubs raised on the eastern fringes of Kenya’s Masai Mara National
Reserve. At first it was thought to be a plastering of mud on her leg or an
unimaginable injury sustained as a result of fighting.
Blackleg
though has never shown any sign being inconvenienced by this puzzling anomaly.
Indeed he was-from the outset- the dominant cub always boisterous and spoiling
for a fight with his siblings.
The latter
comprising of two females and one other male has no such distinguishing black
marks.
After all
Blackleg’s peculiarity must simply be a birthmark.
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