(07-19-2024, 03:05 AM)Cath2020 Wrote: She has obviously chosen to leave her pride and breed with males that are not yet over the younger sub lionesses.  I would have expected her to stick with the females and that they all go into heat together, thereby ensuring more success for all the cubs.  Will she reunite with the other females and raise her cubs with them?  And why does she want to separate from the younger ones and those lionesses cannot seem to stick together?  I hear they are now spread apart and one or two are not accounted for.  I think only 3 lionesses have been seen in some time, one with the young Styx Male.  Anybody have verification of all 4 being alive recently?

(07-19-2024, 04:57 AM)Go131810 Wrote:

(07-19-2024, 03:05 AM)Cath2020 Wrote: She has obviously chosen to leave her pride and breed with males that are not yet over the younger sub lionesses.  I would have expected her to stick with the females and that they all go into heat together, thereby ensuring more success for all the cubs.  Will she reunite with the other females and raise her cubs with them?  And why does she want to separate from the younger ones and those lionesses cannot seem to stick together?  I hear they are now spread apart and one or two are not accounted for.  I think only 3 lionesses have been seen in some time, one with the young Styx Male.  Anybody have verification of all 4 being alive recently?

Wow that is very sad and frustrating. Many lionesses and sub adults. I did not expect to read that they have separated and split and maybe one or more lionesses have not been seen.

(07-21-2024, 08:43 PM)criollo2mil Wrote:

(07-19-2024, 04:57 AM)Go131810 Wrote:

(07-19-2024, 03:05 AM)Cath2020 Wrote: She has obviously chosen to leave her pride and breed with males that are not yet over the younger sub lionesses.  I would have expected her to stick with the females and that they all go into heat together, thereby ensuring more success for all the cubs.  Will she reunite with the other females and raise her cubs with them?  And why does she want to separate from the younger ones and those lionesses cannot seem to stick together?  I hear they are now spread apart and one or two are not accounted for.  I think only 3 lionesses have been seen in some time, one with the young Styx Male.  Anybody have verification of all 4 being alive recently?

Wow that is very sad and frustrating. Many lionesses and sub adults. I did not expect to read that they have separated and split and maybe one or more lionesses have not been seen.

That is only speculation and there’s no confirmation that this is somehow her separating herself.   The cubs were sired bu Gijimas and they’re the same males the other Styx females have chosen as well.

(07-22-2024, 03:14 AM)Cath2020 Wrote: She was separating herself away from the pride, and has been for awhile now.  She periodically was rejoining them when she could or when she lost litters.... We'll never know.  She was not always with them like the other older lionesses in Sabi Sands with their pride.  The fact that the younger lionesses are mating now with the Gijimas has nothing to do with it, in my view.  In fact, I daresay that she was most often away from the younger lionesses in the last year or longer than she was seen in their company.  I'd like for all of them to be together again instead of straying away from one another, mating on the sly.

(07-21-2024, 08:47 PM)criollo2mil Wrote: A Gijima mating w a Styx

(07-31-2024, 10:37 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: 4 Styx reunion in Kruger, adult female, FE and 2 young females:

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Not sure where are Bboys female cubs, and I guess 2 other young females are mating with Gijimas.

Also FE grown a lot recently, he is just ~ 3.5 yrs old, looks very muscular.

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(08-20-2024, 12:49 PM)Mwk85 Wrote: One of the younger Styx lioness was seen with cubs estimated to be 4 weeks old. Two cubs were clearly visible but the rocky area the lioness was laying obscured the full view so there may or may not be more of them. Would have shared it but I saw it via a reel (using a phone so no download option) and the original poster has a private page, sorry.