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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 05-07-2024
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 05-07-2024
RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 05-07-2024
The Mongawane/Birmingham male seen on Sunday on his own near Orpen gate in Kruger National Park
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - afortich - 05-08-2024
(05-07-2024, 06:06 PM)T I N O Wrote: The Mongawane/Birmingham male seen on Sunday on his own near Orpen gate in Kruger National Park
So happy to see BYM with a nice top mane style, this boy is one of my favorite lions alive. I hope he still partner with Torchwood male.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 05-08-2024
Tanda Tula update
This reliance on limited water points brought a surprising end to a buffalo in the latter part of the week. We had another good week with lions; the Vuyela males again proved a constant presence, with all five males being in the area around Tanda Tula one evening. Four of the “brothers” moved together whilst the fifth spent a couple of days in the company of an as-yet-unidentified lioness, mating with her quite regularly. I don’t want to speculate on her origins, but another pride of uncertain origins had pitched up to the north-west of camp one evening; nine lions in total, definitely not the Sark Breakaways (as we were sitting with them further west in our concession). The pride made a hasty retreat to the west, but one unknown lioness was with the Vuyela male for three days before she disappeared. The last time an unknown lioness was seen mating with them was when an original Sark Pride lioness was seen mating to the east of camp. Could this be a return from one of these females, or could it be a portion of the so-called “River Pride” in the Klaserie? We await further confirmation, but our colleagues talk of a pride of up to 14 members having been seen on our western boundary a few times in the last couple of months. This could add an interesting mix to our lion dynamics in the area. And with the 15 members of the Mayambula Pride also making another visit to our central region this week, it appears as though the dry conditions are going to have an impact on where these lions move.
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The Queens of movement this week were no doubt the actual River Pride; three of lionesses started off the week in the south, and then went AWOL. Tracks on our northern boundary one day was followed by them being located some distance to the north of us. The next day however, their tracks came all the way south (through the area where the unknown pride had been the day before). I was hoping this would lead the trackers to finding this new pride, but it resulted in three River lionesses with their cubs in tow. The cubs were bearing the brunt of this movement – from where we saw the tracks the morning before, they had covered close to 20km – and were looking in very poor condition. Bite marks, hip bones protruding through their skinny bodies, things were not looking good for them. To make matters worse, they were accompanied by two Vuyela males. The reason that this was a bad thing was demonstrated that evening when the ladies caught a young zebra foal, but immediately lost their prize to the two males. Fortunately, the cubs were allowed to feed for longer than the lionesses, giving them a much-needed meal. The next morning brought more good news for the pride when they were found with a sub-adult giraffe kill, and this time all members got food. We saw the eight of them resting off their enormous bellies in the Nhlaralumi Riverbed the next morning, not looking like they had room to eat anymore. But nature being nature, is always full of surprises, and in the afternoon when the guides followed up, they found the lions tucking in to a freshly killed buffalo! The poor buffalo was walking towards a nearby pan to cool off on a hot day, and unwittingly walked straight into the lions that weren’t going to let the opportunity pass them by.
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RE: Lions of Timbavati - Potato - 05-10-2024
RE: Coalitions of Kruger National Park - T_Ferguson - 05-10-2024
The 3 Black Dam Males have overtaken the Monwana pride and sent Mapoza male running, and apparently cubs and subs have been killed. There are some videos of some of the encounters, but I am not going to post them here.
RE: Coalitions of Kruger National Park - T_Ferguson - 05-10-2024
Here is the escape. I didn't want to show them on this young lioness, but it's been reported no harm came to this one.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - T I N O - 05-10-2024
(05-10-2024, 05:24 PM)T_Ferguson Wrote: Here is the escape. I didn't want to show them on this young lioness, but it's been reported no harm came to this one.I moved your posts to this thread. Please, share posts in the appropriate thread. Black dam males are from Thornybush in the Greater Kruger and should be posted here.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - criollo2mil - 05-10-2024
Im trying to consolidate the videos ive seen of the event into this post
lioness is seen limping, maybe she had tried to defend the cubs.
Mapoza barely escapes and chased awa....while one lioness gets cornered.
after the storm, at least one of these two Cub was killed
How it Started, Three Black Dams looking for action
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Tr1x24 - 05-10-2024
(05-10-2024, 04:53 PM)T_Ferguson Wrote: The 3 Black Dam Males have overtaken the Monwana pride and sent Mapoza male running, and apparently cubs and subs have been killed. There are some videos of some of the encounters, but I am not going to post them here.
Northern BDMs look absolutley massive.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Tr1x24 - 05-10-2024
Looks like Mapoza tried to help the female, brave but risky move by him.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Gavskrr - 05-11-2024
have any information about that subadult that was caught earlier? Unfortunately, it is very difficult for the puppies to escape. Mapoza has the subadults in his favor, if he follows them he can have a few relatively more comfortable years as a nomad.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Mwk85 - 05-11-2024
(05-11-2024, 12:35 AM)Gavskrr Wrote: have any information about that subadult that was caught earlier? Unfortunately, it is very difficult for the puppies to escape. Mapoza has the subadults in his favor, if he follows them he can have a few relatively more comfortable years as a nomad.
Individual that shared the post on Instagram stated in their caption that there's been no update on him (male subadult) since he was attacked. Obviously that doesn't mean anything definitive on his outcome (alive or dead), that's just all I've seen in regards to him thus far.
RE: Lions of Timbavati - Mwk85 - 05-11-2024
Update on the injured Monwana Pride young male.