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RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-27-2023
August 2015 and the two oldest Avoca/Giraffe males make their first foray into Manyeleti as they begin the process of taking over the Birmingham Pride. Born in 2009, the two six year olds have already left the Avoca pride with whom they fathered the 5 Avoca males, and have pushed deep into the territory of the mighty Northern Matimbas with the confidence of knowing that their four younger brothers were holding down the fort in nearby Timbavati.
Photo credits: Khalil A
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-27-2023
Avoca pride with the Timbavati male (father of the Machaton males) in September 2015.
Here is a quirk in Avoca pride history that might make you wonder again at the lineage of the two impressive Xikukutsu males who currently inhabit Thornybush Reserve. There are two thought on the lineage of the Xikukutsus, one is that they are sons of the two Ross males, who became Avoca pride males around the time the Xikukutsus were born - December 2015. However there are also photos of the whitefaced Giraffe/Avoca male (brother of Brutus) mating with Avoca pride females in September 2015 around the time the Xikukutsus were conceived.
here is another male, the legendary Timbavati male, father of the Machatons also seen with the Avoca pride in September 2015.
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-27-2023
This is one of the three notorious Timbavati males at Kambaku property. He was part of a coalition of three big and healthy males. He has been around for many years, he was been on Caroline and Kambaku farm and further south as far as Birningham and Combretum farms. He also mated with the Avoca, Giraffe and Birmingham prides.
This big specimen alongside with his brothers is the father of the famous Machaton males who reign in the Balule Nature Reserve
Photo credits: EV Photography
Image posted on January 2015
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-27-2023
What a big specimen! One of the three Timbavati males in late 2015 after he stole their buffalo kill to the Avoca pride at Shindzela Tented Camp
Born into the mighty Jacaranda pride in 2004, alongside with his brothers, this specimen has fathered the Machaton males
Photo credits: Fiona Clark
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 03-27-2023
Tanda Tulda update
The cats continued to play along wonderfully, with another week of being spoilt for choice with the lions that we chose to spend time with. Here at Tanda Tula Plains Camp, the Giraffe Pride continued to make the plains a regular hunting ground and the pride of spending a few days in the area. A year ago we were lucky if we got a couple of sightings of this pride over a month, but now we seem to worry if we don’t see them for more than two or three days. Long may it last. The pride began the week with 22 members sprawled out on the plains having fed the night before. That afternoon one of the mothers left the pride and returned a little later with the three missing cubs to reunite with the rest of the family. Although the pride set off on the hunt as darkness fell, they were not successful whilst we were following them.
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In the east, the three River Pride females continued to move around the immediate surroundings of Tanda Tula Safari Camp, and we found a River lioness in the company of one of the Vuyela males close to Safari Camp one morning – two other Vuyela males also sniffing around but soon left the honeymoon couple and headed off in search of the other two females. The group spent the next two days out on the open sodic sites east of Safari Camp. When the three boys left the ladies later in the week, I decided to head east to spend the evening with them, hoping that they would give us a roar (something my regular return guests had not experienced before). We stopped for a sundowner on the crest of a ridge, and when I went to check for a safe bush to ‘mark our territories’, I spotted one of the males lying in the grass watching me from about 80m away. As he wasn’t too perturbed by our presence, we returned to the vehicle to have our drinks and wait for them to roar. Once finished, we got back in the game viewer and went to spend time with them – they got active at the time I predicted, but that was where my predictive skills ended, and despite guaranteeing my guests that they would roar that night, the lions had hunted on their minds and opted for a silent advance into the darkness, leaving me doubting my understanding of animal behavior.
The week also started with the Sark Breakaway Pride remaining in the area, and they were found just off the access road with a fresh buffalo kill one morning; the pride spent a day and a bit on the carcass before moving deeper into the Timbavati. Eric tracked them down a day later as they lazed in a small river bed, and the pride stuck around for another couple of days, making yet another buffalo kill during that time. That was the same evening that the Vuyela males set off on a mission and by morning, they had reunited with the Sark Breakaways, and were sporting bulging bellies – the eleven lions had finished an entire buffalo in a night. That wasn’t the only buffalo to meet its end that night, and about 2km further north, the third Vuyela male was sitting with a buffalo kill of his own that kept him going for the rest of the week.
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If that wasn’t enough, the Mayambula Pride also made a return to our eastern sections when they were found close to Machaton Dam. All 20 members were present, and they were looking in fantastic condition. Having spent time with other lions of late, one can now see just how big the Mayambula females are compared to our other lions in the area. Their arrival back to the central regions coincides with the Vuyela males moving back to the west, and I suspect that this is how things will play out over the coming months – when the roaring in the east stops, the Mayambulas will feel confident moving back into the area, but when the Vuyela males are with the River Pride and announcing their presence, then the Mayambulas will move back towards the Kruger Park.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - DARK MANE - 03-27-2023
Guernsey male.
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 03-27-2023
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Cath2020 - 03-28-2023
(03-27-2023, 07:25 AM)DARK MANE Wrote: River pride subadult.
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This is a Timbavati River Pride Sub. right?
RE: Lions of Timbavati - DARK MANE - 03-28-2023
(03-28-2023, 07:44 PM)Cath2020 Wrote: This is a Timbavati River Pride Sub. right?Yuppp.
Son of hosi and socha
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Cath2020 - 03-29-2023
(03-28-2023, 08:57 PM)DARK MANE Wrote:(03-28-2023, 07:44 PM)Cath2020 Wrote: This is a Timbavati River Pride Sub. right?Yuppp.
Son of hosi and socha
The sons of Hosi and Socha are from the Klaserie River Pride, so he's not from the Timbavati one, unfortunately.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 03-30-2023
The Sark breakaway young male in his prime! He's a massive beast now!
PC: Ximuwu
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - kobe8jf1234 - 03-30-2023
(03-30-2023, 08:03 AM)Timbavati Wrote: The Sark breakaway young male in his prime! He's a massive beast now!
PC: Ximuwu
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what a beast who father him?
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Tr1x24 - 03-30-2023
(03-30-2023, 09:20 AM)kobe8jf1234 Wrote: what a beast who father him?
Should be Sark/Masulungu males.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - DARK MANE - 03-30-2023
3 vuyela males with river pride girl.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - afortich - 03-31-2023
Again princess Lagertha on a tree
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