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A British photographer has captured the moment brave lion cubs had to leap across a swollen river in Kenya before drying off in the sun with their mother.
Photographer Paul Goldstein spotted the plucky youngsters lined up by the waters at the Olare Motorogi Conservancy this month.
Goldstein said: 'The Ntiakntiak river in Olare Conservancy, bordering the Masai Mara is normally a trickle.
'After almost biblical storms it becomes rather more than that. The previous evening if they had tried this they would have been swept away.'
The photographer found the mother and her young cubs at dawn 'finishing the last rites of a warthog'.
Goldstein said: 'She was a little out of her leonine manor
