Figure 1.

Belly scores to determine the state of hunger/appetite of individual male lions following Bertram (1975a): (a) Fully gorged with a bloated belly, belly fold taut and almost invisible, scored as 1; (b) Well-fed individual with a distended belly and a hint of the belly fold seen underneath, scored as 2; (c) Belly line almost parallel to the ground with a prominent belly fold, animal not too fed, neither too starved, scored as 3; (d) Semistarved individual with a very prominent fold and hints of lateral pelvic depressions, scored as 4; (e) Fully starved individual, with a very loose belly fold and prominent lateral depressions, scored as 5. Photographs were taken by first author.