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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 03-18-2022

(03-17-2022, 09:31 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: I think he needs to move out of this area and try his luck elsewhere, Torchwood/BYM are clearly dominant and established coalition here and wont accept him at this point, shame he didn't link with them half a year ago or so..
On his own he very likely won't find luck anywhere. Timbavati is a good spot for him as there are quite a few nomadic males he could have partner with.

RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-18-2022

(03-17-2022, 11:23 PM)Mdz123 Wrote: Just to let you know, you posted the same thing twice.

Thank you. WiFi wasn't the best today.

RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-18-2022

Rough looking Skorro male Rhasa with one of the Mayambula females recently in central Timbavati. Image by Patra Marcucci, March 9, 2022

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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Tonpa - 03-18-2022

Random question, are the Strydom males still around in Balule?

RE: Lions of Timbavati - lionuk - 03-18-2022

1/2 Skorro males keeps an eye on the horizon in search of his partner
Credit: tanda.tula



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RE: Lions of Timbavati - lionuk - 03-18-2022

This Skorro male does look quite rough..

RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-18-2022

(03-18-2022, 07:09 PM)lionuk Wrote: 1/2 Skorro males keeps an eye on the horizon in search of his partner
Credit: tanda.tula



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Looks like Vuyela male. They have been around the area lately

RE: Lions of Timbavati - lionuk - 03-18-2022

(03-18-2022, 07:50 PM)Timbavati Wrote: Looks like Vuyela male. They have been around the area lately
Yes, maybe. But I found this latest picture of the 1/2 Skorro males and it appears that he has this same kind of wound above his right eye. So it must be him, not the Vuyela male. 


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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 03-19-2022

Tanda Tula update

The lion sightings continued to be good, although most of the sightings were limited to the Mayambula Pride in the east.  The pride even ventured as far as Nkhari, and the two Skorro males were seen with a couple of the females close to Nkhari Homestead, and a few days later four of the younger pride members were feasting on a kill a few hundred metres downstream from Tanda Tula Field Camp!

The three mothers with the eight growing cubs began introducing the cubs to meat, and were taken to two separate wildebeest kills over the course of the week.  I had a slightly frustrating afternoon when I headed to where the pride had been seen on a kill in the morning, but when we arrived we found only a single hyena feeding on the remains of the kill, and the pride had moved into an area that was just too thick to track in.  We did manage to see one of the Skorro males on the search for his partner which was some consolation, and we were lucky to see the lionesses and cubs back at one of the den sites the next afternoon.


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Guy found three of the Vuyela males in the west one morning when they seemed to be testing the waters to the south, but they soon moved back north.  Foreman also found two lionesses from the Sark Breakaways on his way between camps one afternoon and notified the guides.  The guides that were closest followed up and found them, and quite amazingly, whilst following them the one lioness lay down and gave birth to a cub in front of them in the middle of nowhere, almost as if the birth took her by surprise!!!  When she moved off with the cub, they wisely closed down the area to give the mother some privacy and we await to hear how the cubs are doing.  One other Sark lioness spent a couple of days in the west too after feasting on a warthog.  There was no sign of the Giraffe or River Prides this week.


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Videos from a birth of mentioned cub:
https://www.facebook.com/kambakulodge/videos/381134300234624
https://www.facebook.com/kambakulodge/videos/636749704090428

RE: Lions of Timbavati - lionuk - 03-20-2022

A great picture of Black Dam male sons- Limper Monwana and Giraffe young male. 
Credit: megkatewan


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RE: Lions of Timbavati - lionuk - 03-20-2022


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Credit: Cathan Moore

RE: Lions of Timbavati - lionuk - 03-20-2022

1/2 Skorro males, Rhasa 
Credit: Cathan Moore


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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Tr1x24 - 03-20-2022

(03-20-2022, 01:31 PM)lionuk Wrote: A great picture of Black Dam male sons- Limper Monwana and Giraffe young male. 
Credit: megkatewan
Photo 

Are these 2 alone now?

RE: Lions of Timbavati - Tonpa - 03-20-2022

Young Skorro male. August and now by Johan Smalman 


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Interesting to see how much nose pigment they gain in that amount of time

RE: Lions of Timbavati - lionuk - 03-20-2022

(03-20-2022, 06:16 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: Are these 2 alone now?
Looks like it, yes. They were also seen last month and again they were alone.

Pictured last month:

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