Birmingham Pride of lions

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The 3 little cubs can be also differentiated by different patterns of missing fur on their tails. They have more patches of missing fur on not always visible places like their legs, but those can change over time and you would nearly always recognize them from each other before going for those.

The No-Dot female cub has on an off screw like pattern on the tip of her tail, doesn't seem to have any obvious patches of missing fur elsewhere atm - this cub seems to be the most adventurous.

The Black Dot female cub (I mean their mother is called White Dot, so as a placeholder) has that obvious contrasting dot on its left side, she also has more pacthes of missing fur, some missing fur on its back, but nowhere near the extent of her brother, which could help to distinguish her, if the dot is not visible. The fur is missing on just the tip of the tail, more fur left than her sister has. Seems equally boisterous as her sisters, both female cubs seems to be bit paler than their brother (might be the recessive gene espressing itself?), but none is a particularly dark one anyway.

The male cub has that big patch of missing fur on its back and is a little bit slightly bigger already. He seems to be quite timid, often following the rest of one of his sisters rather than venturing on his own. Doesn't seem to instigate playful fights as much as his sisters do from what I have seen so far.

Clip footage from WildEarth, there is much more minutes in Feb 6 Sunrise video (time logs below the videos). The resilient cub not letting go from the mother tail is the No-Dot female cub, at the time only one out, her siblings took long minutes to join her from the bush/den after a scare. You can see her missing fur tail pattern even at the sneak peak of the video.

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