In 2002, a lioness at Samburu National Park adopted a succession of baby oryx.

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Trying not to breathe, I turned my head and saw the moonlit shadow of a lioness.

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Caught off-guard, the lioness retreats into the bush, vexed, but unwilling to attack a creature so many times her size.

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Our car climbs to the crest of one hill, where Douglas spies a lioness guarding a giraffe carcass from a mob of vultures.

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One moment, Virginia McKenna, aka Joy Adamson, was walking through the bush with Elsa, the lioness the Adamsons wanted to return to the wild.

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Suddenly, the lioness turns and lunges at the birds, swiping speculatively into a flurry of feathers, landing her paw right on top of one squawking vulture.

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Winehouse was eligible as a result of the album Lioness: Hidden Treasures, which compiled rare material, unreleased tracks and alternative recordings after her death in 2011.

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At the time nobody imagined that, in addition to her role as a social lioness and hostess to the powerful, she was simultaneously responsible for setting in motion a process that would profoundly impact the outcome of the Afghan war.

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