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 / Modified oct 10, 2010 9:17 a.m.

NATURE: The Desert Lions

In the forbidding Namib Desert, along the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, Dr. Philip Stander tracks the mysterious and remarkable desert lion. Thursday at 8 p.m. on PBS-HD by Colleen Greer

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A lioness

Philip Stander, a Namibian carnivore specialist, first spotted these desert lions in the mid-1980s, watching in disbelief as a lioness killed a fur seal in the waves and dragged it five miles inland to feed her cubs. Before he had a chance to study them further, they disappeared; Stander became obsessed with their fate and their story. Twenty years later, the lions reappeared, giving him a second chance to unravel their secrets.

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