Big kitties/Vegas style

These girls were at the MGM lion exhibit. The lions do 6 hour stints there (usually just once a week) and spend the rest of their time at a ranch just ouside Las Vegas. I stopped back there again a couple days later, and they had a big male "on duty" that day. The trainer was going around the glass walls of the enclosure hucking handfuls of raw meat so it would stick to the glass, then this huge lion would follow along and lick it off! I didn't get any pics of him, though. I was amazed at how big he was. His head/including mane, was easily over 3 feet across, then that giant tongue the size of a small dinner plate....wow!