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Cheetah. The success of the Diary format saw Jonathan go on to co-present two series of Elephant Diaries (2005–2006), Big Bear Diary as well as narrating Chimpanzee Diaries. He presented a two-part series for BBC2 called The Truth About Lions which aired in 2011. Jonathan and Angela filmed two programmes entitled Sacred Nature in Season 2 of Tales by Light produced by Abraham Joffe of Untitled Film Works filmed in 2016 in the Maasai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti in Tanzania. The show was funded by National Geographic/Canon Australia. The programmes showcase Jonathan and Angela's work as Conservation Photographers.
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disappeared at the age of 16 in 2012. They now follow Zawadi's four-year-old daughter who can sometimes be seen around
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Leopard's Tale (1985), which he authored alone. He sold limited editions of his pen and ink wildlife drawings to support himself in those early days. He married Angela Bellamy on 26 March 1992 in a ceremony conducted on the top of the 300-meter Siria Escarpment overlooking Marsh Lion territory in the Maasai Mara.
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is part of a group of male lions known as the 4 Musketeers who took over the Marsh Pride in 2011 and then deserted the area for
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which aired from 1996 to 2008, becoming known as Big Cat Week from 2003 to 2006 and then finally concluding with Big Cat Live in 2008. Angela was one of the big cat game spotters as well as the stills photographer for the series. Jonathan and Angela wrote and illustrated three books to accompany the
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Jonathan and Angela continue to document the lives of the Marsh Pride of lions that
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