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Lions are the very image of majesty.
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And, indeed, of Africa itself.
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Their strength lies
in the power of the pride,
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their tight-knit family.
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Lions have ruled the savannahs for
millennia.
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And yet, within the last 20 years
or so,
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their numbers have fallen by almost
half.
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Our team has spent two years
following perhaps the most famous
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lion family of all, the Marsh pride
of Kenya's Masai Mara.
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As we join them, the very survival
of this great dynasty
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is under threat.
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Their future depends entirely
on the strength and determination
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of one extraordinary leader.
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Perhaps the most powerful
in the history of the Marsh pride.
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(THUNDER RUMBLES)
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A lioness known as Charm.
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The Masai Mara.
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The pride have always thrived
here through an alliance
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between powerful alpha males
to protect the family
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and experienced females
to raise the cubs.
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But, for the first time
in the pride's history,
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this alliance has been shattered.
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The family has been abandoned
by all the adult males.
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The survival of the pride now rests
upon the shoulders of Charm
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and her cousin, Sienna.
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The only remaining adults.
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If their young are to reach
adulthood and the dynasty return
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to full strength, they must now both
protect and feed the whole family.
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August.
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Following the recent rains,
it's a time of plenty.
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The lions are surrounded by
wildebeest
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on their annual migration.
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A quarter-tonne bull would make
a good meal
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for all ten of the pride.
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(WILDEBEEST SNORTS)
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But even though Charm
is an experienced hunter,
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most attempts end in failure.
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Charm uses her hind legs to knock
the wildebeest off-balance.
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The smallest cubs won't be able
to catch food for themselves
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for another 12 months.
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Their ever-growing appetites mean
that Charm and Sienna
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have to hunt around the clock.
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The females are often
forced to head out alone.
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Tonight, it's Sienna's turn.
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Sunrise.
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Sienna is seriously injured.
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She's too week to move.
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A lone lion is always at risk
of attack by buffalo,
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hyenas, even other lion prides.
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It's evening, and Sienna hasn't
returned to her family.
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Now, everything depends on Charm.
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As night falls, Charm has no choice
but to head out to hunt,
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leaving the vulnerable cubs alone.
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She's being trailed.
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Hyenas.
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They'll attack lone lions
if they get the chance,
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to steal any kill they make.
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Charm must work fast
before they find her.
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(CHARM GROWLS)
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They've tracked her down.
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(HYENAS SCREECH)
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On her own, she couldn't hold them
off.
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But another of the pride has been
following Charm.
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Her three-year-old daughter, Yaya.
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The rest of the pride arrive.
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To eat.
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Yaya has stepped up to help defend
the pride and feed her family.
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Daughters stay with their mothers
for life, and may eventually
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have cubs of their own.
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Yaya is not yet an adult,
but as Charm's eldest daughter,
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she's next in line
to lead the pride.
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Charm also has a three-year-old son,
Tatu.
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The beginnings of an impressive
mane are a sign
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of his approaching adulthood.
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Like every adolescent,
Tatu can't resist the chance
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to test his growing strength.
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Even against a two-tonne hippo.
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But he's not the only
young male in this pride.
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His cousin, Red.
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Over the last few months,
the two of them have begun
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to forge an alliance.
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But even together, they're not
really going to worry
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an angry hippo.
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Unlike their sisters,
sons always leave their family
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when they reach adulthood.
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Their growing bond may enable them
to leave as a powerful partnership.
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Eventually, they'll fight other
males to try and take over a pride
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of their own.
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But for the time being,
they still need Charm
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to look after them.
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It's been four days since
Sienna was attacked.
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She's back on her feet.
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But she's in urgent need of a meal.
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She simply doesn't
have the strength.
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As they mature, young males begin
to explore the boundaries
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of the pride's territory.
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Red has ventured out alone.
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(HYENA HOWLS)
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And blundered straight
into the middle of the hyena clan.
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(HYENAS CHATTER)
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(RED ROARS)
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He's trapped by over 20 of them.
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The pack tries to wear him down.
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This number of hyenas
could kill him.
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It's impossible to fight
them all at once.
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He can't keep them at bay for much
longer.
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He's tiring fast.
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His ally, Tatu,
has heard the commotion.
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Now, the odds have changed.
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Even for 20 hyenas,
a pair of male lions
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is too much to take on.
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Red is lucky.
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Tatu has saved his cousin's life.
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After weeks of feeding on scraps,
Sienna has grown strong enough
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to try and rejoin her family.
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She greets Charm first.
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Even after being apart for so long,
the bond between them
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is still strong.
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Yaya also welcomes Sienna
back into the pride.
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At last, Charm's family
are back together.
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Charm not only has her hunting
partner back,
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but another hunter is emerging.
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Yaya is becoming a powerful lioness.
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She's learned how to stalk.
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Stay low.
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Approach silently.
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And from downwind.
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But the key to a successful ambush
is not being noticed.
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Now it's seen her, the wildebeest,
with its sharp horns,
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has the advantage.
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But Yaya is learning.
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Mother and daughter are starting
to develop their partnership.
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It's October.
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The great wildebeest
migration never stops.
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And now, they're leaving
the Masai Mara.
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For Charm and her family,
food is about to become
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much more difficult to find.
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The plains are now empty.
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And, in search of food,
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Charm leads the pride to the edge of
their range.
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Here, she finds another kind of
prey.
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Cattle, illegally brought into the
lions' territory to graze.
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An opportunity to feed her hungry
family.
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But hunting cattle
can lead to disaster.
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To protect their livestock,
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herdsmen sometimes put out poisoned
bait.
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Lions can't tell
when a meal is toxic.
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A week later, Charm's one-year-old
son is so ill he can hardly stand.
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The whole pride are showing
the signs of poisoning.
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And Sienna is missing once again.
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As the temperature climbs,
the pride heads off to find shade.
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But the struggling cub
is too weak to follow.
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Charm needs to stay
with the rest of the pride.
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Hours later, the cub still hasn't
caught up with his mother.
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And there's no sign
of Sienna, either.
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The next day, Charm
returns to her son's side.
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He's still very unsteady.
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But his mother can't abandon
the rest of the pride.
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(THUNDER RUMBLES)
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For the sake of the pride,
Charm abandons her young cub.
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The others are waiting for her.
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They need her now more than ever.
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She will never see her son,
or Sienna, alive again.
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Despite her losses,
there may still be a future
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for Charm and her dynasty.
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Her eldest cubs, Yaya and Tatu,
have survived the poisoning.
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Charm keeps the pride moving
in a constant search for prey.
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Catching enough food is hard,
even with Yaya's help.
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But Charm is relentless.
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The younger members of the pride
try to follow her example.
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Even with little to hunt
and the constant harassment
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of hyenas, Charm's skill
and experience as a leader
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is keeping the pride alive.
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A few weeks later,
her efforts begin to be rewarded.
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Tatu and Red are now
over four years old,
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ready to take the final
step to adulthood.
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It's time for them
to leave the pride.
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For Charm, this is success.
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They head out as a partnership,
to battle other males,
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to win a pride of their own,
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and continue the family's bloodline
elsewhere.
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But Charm still needs to get
the remaining four female cubs
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safely to adulthood.
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(LION ROARS)
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(LION ROARS)
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One early morning in May...
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...the roar of adult male lions.
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Two new males, outsiders,
are searching for a pride
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to take over as their own.
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(LION ROARS)
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New males could bring the
possibility
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of a new generation of cubs.
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But they could just as
easily bring disaster.
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Soon, the new males begin
to impose their authority
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on the Marsh pride.
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Charm's youngest daughter
is still too young to breed.
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To the males, she's nothing
more than another mouth
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to share food with.
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They don't want her in their pride.
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Try as she might, Charm struggles
to defend her daughter.
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Even she is no match
for an adult male.
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Charm tries distracting them,
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putting herself between them and her
cub.
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But it's no good.
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If her daughter stays,
the males will eventually kill her.
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The cub has no choice but to leave.
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And the males don't stop there.
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Every young cub is driven out.
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Their future is uncertain.
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There's nothing Charm can do.
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Eight months ago, Charm's
pride numbered ten lions.
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Of them, only she and
Yaya now remain.
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The return of the wildebeest
signals the end, at last,
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of the hard times.
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Time for a new beginning.
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Charm is starting the process
of rebuilding the Marsh pride.
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She and one of the males
have separated themselves
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from the rest of the group.
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Females are only able to conceive
once every few months.
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For those crucial days,
the male won't leave her side.
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Charm stays close to him
to strengthen their bond.
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If the male isn't certain
any future cubs are his,
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he will probably kill them.
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Four months later.
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Charm is alone, away from the pride.
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Over the last 14 months,
her dynasty has faced ruin.
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But now, there is new hope.
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(CUB MEOWS)
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Just two weeks old.
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Charm gave birth away
from the others.
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Inquisitive and clumsy lions
could be a threat to the newborns.
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But her two cubs are still
extremely vulnerable.
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Buffaloes seek out lion
cubs and will kill them
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if they get the chance.
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She shields them with her body.
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Without her to protect them,
the buffalo will trample
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them to death.
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(CHARM GROWLS)
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Charm has forced the entire
herd to back down.
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(CUB MEOWS)
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Life is always dangerous
for lion cubs.
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But these two have an experienced
mother to look after them.
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At last, Charm's pride is increasing
again.
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One male and one female.
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And these cubs may soon
be joined by more.
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Yaya has paired off with
the other adult male.
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Soon, she too will have cubs.
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Charm's grandchildren.
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Charm is taking her cubs to meet
the rest of the Marsh pride
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for the first time.
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Once their father has accepted
the cubs, he'll defend them
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as fiercely as their mother.
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They are the future
of his dynasty, too.
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Charm has been away from the pride
since giving birth,
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and hasn't seen Yaya for weeks.
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Their bond has held through perhaps
the hardest times
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in the pride's history.
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With her daughter pregnant
and her son looking for a pride
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of his own, Charm's dynasty
and the Marsh pride will live on.
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This extraordinary
lioness has succeeded.
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To follow the story
of Charm and her family,
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the Dynasties team travelled
to the Masai Mara,
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one of these big cats'
last strongholds.
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The crew's aim is to immerse
themselves in the lives
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of these powerful predators,
following them closely
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for over 400 days.
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But first, they need to master
the tricky task of identifying
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each individual lion.
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Every lion has its own unique set
of whisker spots,
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and put that together with coat
colour, ear notches, nose colour,
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you can pretty much identify that
lion.
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It would be really great if we could
stick moustaches on them and glasses
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and hats, because that would make it
a lot easier for everybody
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to understand who they were!
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After weeks of following the family
for 12 hours a day,
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they're getting to know the lions.
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And the lions, it seems, are getting
to know them, too.
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Well done.
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It was the closest I've ever been.
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She had her chin over the door.
Yeah!
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I mean, my feet are
within two feet of her.
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She's big when she's that close.
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Before long, it becomes
clear that each lion
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has its own particular character.
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On a long project like this,
there's a real luxury,
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and the luxury is you get
to know the individuals.
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They are different to each other.
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Some sit and follow, others watch.
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Some are into everything,
some are funny,
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some are really stupid, in a way.
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I mean, you can see the rest
of the pride kind of rolling
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their eyes as yet another male comes
in and blows another hunt.
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You begin to care for them.
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You can't help it.
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Charm, she is what a lion should be.
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She's a provider, she's a mother,
she looks after cubs
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that aren't her own,
she's the matriarch.
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She's the... She's the dame.
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The crew's attachment
to the lions is what makes
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what happens next
so hard to deal with.
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Poisoning is one of the biggest
threats lions face
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across Africa today.
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It can...
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It becomes very close to home
when it's animals that you know
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so well, individuals.
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We know them really well now.
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It's, um, much more...
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Erm, you feel it much more.
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Soon after the pride leave him,
emergency wildlife vets arrive
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to try and save Charm's youngest
son.
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But the poison has no
simple antidote.
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The vets try to ease the symptoms.
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All they and the crew can do now
is wait in the hope he can recover
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and return to the pride.
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Eventually, it becomes clear nothing
more can be done for him.
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This animal is in a very bad
condition, a critical condition,
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and we think it's not
going to make it.
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Across Africa, the need for teams
like these is on the rise,
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treating wildlife after
encounters with man.
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It's just entirely wrong, isn't it?
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Lions are so endangered.
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There are hardly
any of them, really.
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This is one of the best
places in the world.
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They're disappearing so quickly,
and then this happens to them.
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Because of pressure
on the land, of people.
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Conflict between humans
and lions is increasing
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throughout the continent.
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Dr Shivani Bhalla is a Kenyan
conservationist who has been working
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with lions and local
communities for over a decade.
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So many people are surprised to hear
that there's only about 20,000 lions
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left in Africa.
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There's less than 2,000
lions left in Kenya.
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They are disappearing so quickly.
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Lions don't have enough food
and they don't have enough space,
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but communities also
don't have enough grazing
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for their livestock.
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They also don't have enough space.
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We've got to try and understand both
sides of the picture.
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Coexistence between people
and lions is possible.
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Our strategy has been
working with warriors,
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women, children, to really bring
them on board and engage them
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in lion conservation,
because they're the ones herding
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livestock every day,
they're the ones coming into contact
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with wildlife every day.
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Community programmes have shown
that lions can actually recover
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in areas where they used
to be once, but then their numbers
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declined because they were being
killed.
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And Sophie and John witness
that power of recovery
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first-hand, here with Charm.
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Oh, wow!
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Well, that's that, I think.
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Today's the day.
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She's gone in there
now to have her cubs,
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which is quite exciting, really.
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We're kind of living it with her,
really, aren't we?
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It's about sharing that experience.
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That's the whole point.
That's why we're making the film.
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Over a year ago, the team
set out to find a lion
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and to tell its story.
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And here we are, over a year later,
and just there,
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where the camera's pointing, we've
got Charm and two little cubs.
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She's had such a hard, hard year.
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I don't think any of us could've
predicted a happier, better way.
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She's the most amazing lion.
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She's just incredible.
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And... It's the perfect ending,
really.
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Lions are incredibly resilient.
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Given space, enough food
and security, they can bounce back.
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The challenges facing lion
conservationists are formidable.
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Indeed, unbelievable
though it may sound,
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there is a real possibility
that, before long, lions in the wild
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could disappear entirely.
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But if conservationists
and the people who have to live
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alongside these great beasts
of prey can work together,
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there is still a chance
to save them.
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Next time... one of the last
great families of painted wolves.
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An intense rivalry.
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Mother against daughter,
each striving to rule.
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Who will triumph, and can they bring
peace to these lands?
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