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A young lioness plays with a male lion in the dry Ewaso Nyiro riverbed in Kenya's Samburu game reserve situated in northern Kenya, 325 km (200 miles) north of the capital Nairobi, January 6, 2006. A new study of Africa's most endangered carnivores has called for urgent action to save beasts such as the lion, cheetah and Ethiopian wolf from major threats to survival such as hunting and conflict with humans. Picture taken January 6, 2006.