Stunning video shows eight lions lounging in a tree as they scout for fresh prey

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This is the amazing moment eight lions were spotted lounging in a tree - scouting for fresh prey.  The rare sighting was captured on camera by safari guide Curteis Roberts, 28,  during a trip in the Tanzania's Serengeti in May.   Lions climb the trees in part to rest but more importantly to survey the land for food.   At this time of year, a lot of their prey has migrated far away, so lions will use their perch in the trees to look for food from above.  Curteis, a self-employed safari guide from Hoedspruit, South Africa, said: "This is a newer tactic we're seeing from lions in the Serengeti.

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00:00Lions in a tree. Not just one, not two, not five, seven lions in a tree and what's so

00:09crazy is that most of them are juveniles so the way they climb this tree is so

00:14amateur and oh there's eight, oh there's eight lions in the tree so there's even more.

02:44I told you, it was inevitable.

03:14There's eight, now there is eight because there's the one behind that one.

03:44Eight lions in one tree and the funniest thing is that most of them are juveniles.

03:59So the way they climb up this tree and down is very amateur.

04:03They're sliding, they're beehiving in the tree and they're also trying to push their

04:08brothers and sisters out of the way.

04:10This is crazy.

04:12Only in this area do you get tree climbing.

04:20Dude, that's interesting.

04:22I think it's going to jump down.

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