This image is real and not posed. they sat like this for 5 minutes, when 2 got up and left. "The New Zealand-based photographer captured this incredible shot in 2012 while in Tanzania. Its tranquil tone, and surprisingly candid composition, goes against the stereotypes we often have about lions—that they are untamed and always on the prowl. Here, those ideas don’t ring true." Some will instantly be aware of the cause of this injury.