Mangheni Pride

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(08-28-2023, 10:54 AM)Mapokser Wrote: In another thread we were talking about inbreeding on Manyeleti and Timbavati, and I got to think about Sabi Sands and realized the Mangheni Pride is also somehow inbred:

As Londolozi puts it, the Tsalala pride was born when 2 Ximhungwe females broke away, carrying the cubs from the West Street Males.

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Only one cub survived, the Original Tailless Tsalala BB, she's the ancestor of all the Tsalalas, Manghenis and Kambulas alive today:

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https://blog.londolozi.com/2021/12/07/th...ala-pride/

According to Elephant Plains, BB is the mother of 2 of the original Manghenis:

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https://www.elephantplains.co.za/big-5-b...mber-2012/

The mothers of the Manghenis were BB's half-brothers, the Mapogos. The other 2 Manghenis were daughters of BB's daughters with their Mapogo uncles.

Now, currently, the new cubs are from total unrelated males, but there is a coalition of four 4,5-5yo  Kambula Males just east of the Mangheni's territory, these males are grandsons of the 2 remaining original females, and nephews of the 3 younger females. So one more reason to hope the Kambulas don't target the Mangheni pride, though I'm afraid there's quite a good chance they will, since they probably won't target their natal pride east of them, and they aside the Mangheni is the next big pride around.

Hopefully though, they'll go for Talamatis, Nkuhumas, or even leave SS, though I doubt they will, they spent their entire nomadic life there after all, and considering their barely older brothers are already dominant males despite lacking the western Kambulas numbers, it's quite possible the Kambulas will start showing territorial behavior soon.

I just found out the southern pride is as well the 5 selati males their fathers where born in the southern pride as well they where called the golf course males I believe and their fathers where the rollercoaster males Reply