Notch Coalition Male Lineage

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 Notch the Lion-King of the Mara and His Five Sons1 hr ·Light mane brother of Notch most likely by the same mother but different fathers .They could have been fathered by a coalition of two or more different males hence the difference in look one being black maned and the other dark blonde .He is the father of Notch sons Long and Bob and Beauty the marsh pride female and possibly the other two marsh girls.Killed in June 2005,just when Notch sons were barely a month old .The fact that both may have been fathered by different males will help reduce the inbreeding abit . For the four Notch sons are still fathering current concentrating in the two look out prides and the Roan hill pride with cubs there ranging from a month to 1.5 years almost subs .They seem to have abandoned the Sand river pride far South along the Serengeti border may be because it's far from their core territory and the fact there are two 4 male coalitions they had taken it from and spent most of last year .The all place is full of Notch descendants but eventually their offsprings will move into the Serengeti and surrounding conservancies .Well as it's the males who end causing the inbreeding by take so many prides eventually they may start producing large groups of female offspring rather than the current rate of large groups of males .This will reduce inbreeding as the females don't conquer other prides giving a chance to new males to come in since fathers tend to abandon prides when their daughters become of mating age..PC Cavajo

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