Pride vs tribe :The Scientist [2009-07-01]


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	By Cheryl Lyn Dybas

Pride vs tribe A male lion saunters toward one of a safari of Land Rovers bumping its way along the floor of Ngorongoro Crater, a Tanzania National Park within the country's greater Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA). Inches from an open Land Rover window, the lion stops and glances at the vehicle's occupants. Without another look, he nonchalantly sidles up first to one tire, then another, and marks