Panthera leo
Drawn from open occurrence records inside Kunene / Kaokoveld, aggregated onto a 25 km grid.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
Records exist for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.
Africa holds perhaps 20,000 to 25,000 wild lions, down from a couple hundred thousand a century ago, and Etosha is one of the strongholds where you can still watch a whole pride operate. Namibia also keeps a wilder secret: a small population of desert-adapted lions that patrol the Skeleton Coast, hunting seals where the dunes meet the Atlantic, something recorded almost nowhere else on Earth. A male can pass 200 kilograms, and a pride is really a matriarchy: related females who hunt together, raise cubs together, and hold the territory while males come and go on shorter, harder careers. Most of a lion's day, up to 20 hours of it, is spent doing magnificently little.
Social to a degree no other cat is. Females do most hunting, often after dark; roars carry up to eight kilometers and are territory made audible.
Work the golden hour at waterholes, then stay for dusk when the pride wakes up. Eye-level from the vehicle window beats shooting down every time. A yawning lion precedes a moving lion.
Never bait, call, or spotlight lions for a photo, and keep night drives to licensed guides. A habituated lion is eventually a dead lion.