(08-10-2023, 09:42 PM)Timbavati Wrote: World lion day!
The white Birmingham male was sighted this morning at Ingwelala. He has a few superficial scars, but looking in good condition. 
Photo courtesy of: Rich Gregg Perry

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(08-11-2023, 09:33 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-10-2023, 09:42 PM)Timbavati Wrote: World lion day!
The white Birmingham male was sighted this morning at Ingwelala. He has a few superficial scars, but looking in good condition. 
Photo courtesy of: Rich Gregg Perry

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Not sure how superficial those wounds are, just lucky they aren't fatal, we'll have to see if the eye is damaged when the swelling goes down. It appears that someone bit him good, right around his eye.

I did not see those wounds when he was hanging near the injured RP male. I wonder if the Birminghams bumped into the remaining RP males, or possibly someone else.

(08-10-2023, 09:42 PM)Timbavati Wrote: World lion day!
The white Birmingham male was sighted this morning at Ingwelala. He has a few superficial scars, but looking in good condition. 
Photo courtesy of: Rich Gregg Perry

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(08-11-2023, 09:53 AM)Gavskrr Wrote:

(08-11-2023, 09:33 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-10-2023, 09:42 PM)Timbavati Wrote: World lion day!
The white Birmingham male was sighted this morning at Ingwelala. He has a few superficial scars, but looking in good condition. 
Photo courtesy of: Rich Gregg Perry

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Not sure how superficial those wounds are, just lucky they aren't fatal, we'll have to see if the eye is damaged when the swelling goes down. It appears that someone bit him good, right around his eye.

I did not see those wounds when he was hanging near the injured RP male. I wonder if the Birminghams bumped into the remaining RP males, or possibly someone else.

maybe they went back to the wounded male to finish the job and ended up with those scars

(08-11-2023, 10:26 AM)Mapokser Wrote: I was very impressed by Scar's height in this video, sure the River Pride Male was very young and had a lot of bulking up to do, but speaking only about height, lions are around their peak when they turn 4, still Scar was towering over him:

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It's not rare to see lions that aren't that much taller even when compared to lionesses.

(08-11-2023, 10:26 AM)Mapokser Wrote: I was very impressed by Scar's height in this video, sure the River Pride Male was very young and had a lot of bulking up to do, but speaking only about height, lions are around their peak when they turn 4, still Scar was towering over him:

(08-11-2023, 10:22 AM)Mapokser Wrote: Speaking of the dead River Pride Male, here a throwback to his coalition's fight with the 2 Mbiri males ( dunno if he is the one in the video ), I don't think this different angle of the post-fight ( different video from the one shared here before ) and photos were share here on WF.

All credits to Kelly Co:

Last year on April 14 th 2019, I was lucky to see the fight between the river pride and Mbiri brothers. This is my video of the fight.

We were watching 3 of the riverpride lions near NThambo treecamp, when another camp called in saying the Mbiri Brothers were running towards us on the tar road. Our jeep drove towards the Mbiri brothers, followed them back and we saw them fighting! The movie I made is only the last minute, I was so “ shocked “ from seeing this, nobody filmed the beginning of the fight.

Before the fight:

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Mbiris:

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After the fight the split up, we found them back later. They were reunited and wounded.

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Same day on the evening drive they lay on the same spot but with a full tummy. We could hear lions making a lot of noise for several hours in the night. ( this was my second game drive ever and the first time I saw lions in the wild!)

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Video from a different angle than the one shared here before:

(08-12-2023, 04:08 AM)Tr1x24 Wrote: @Mapokser not all individuals grow the same, some grow and develop sooner, some Iater. 

I said they grow more slowly as they get older, yes, on average, most of "frame" growing is done to ~4 yrs, while mass they gain up to 6 yrs, when they start to enter absolute prime years.

But i dont like this comparisons of prime males vs 3.5/4 yrs old, ok, they might not gain much in height anymore, but will get much more mass and mane, which brings alot for males to look overall bigger.

If we could see current RP males and Mbiris together, size difference would not nearly look that big.