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RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Mapogo Lions chased towards Earth Lodge – by Brett Thomson
Posted By Brett Thomson on Jul 10, 2012
Richard de Gouveia from Sabi Sabi reports this morning that one of the Mapogo was seen running at high speed past Earth Lodge, and in hot pursuit were the Kruger Males. The sighting was accompanied by lots of roaring and aggression! It was before game drive, so they were not able to follow immediately. On subsequent follow ups it seems that it was a small altercation with minor injuries.
The fact that the Mapogo lions have now been chased back towards Earth Lodge seems to indicate that they really have nowhere to go anymore, and it is only a matter of time before they face their demise. After being chased today they are now hanging out very close to the edge of the border of the Sabi Sand Private Game Reserve.
Although we all love the Mapogo I was chatting to a friend of mine, Courteney Blunden (who used to guide at Lion Sands and who is now the owner of Africa on Foot), and he witnessed the Mapogo establishing their territories in the early days. He mentioned that they were the most vicious, violent lion coalition he has ever seen, and slowly but surely it seems that you reap what you sow! The life of a male lion is not easy!
I was lucky enough to see the Mapogo when I visited Savanna Private Game Reserve, and we came across five of them resting. To come across five males lions lying in the bush, on an open safari 4×4 is intimidating enough and the sighting remains with me today! As a memento I bought the below picture of them drinking at a waterhole and the photo was taken by Paddy Hagelthorn. It is now framed and takes pride of place in my home office!
Long live the Mighty Mapogo!
News flash! Just heard from Mele Andru that apparently the one Mapogo’s testicles have been badly damaged in the fighting this morning. Not good news at all.
Richard De Gouveia: "It must have been Mak that was injured in the fight as I saw PB and all his 'tackle' seemed to be perfect!!"
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Ben Coley (Bush Lodge Ranger) says
July 12, 2012 at 8:42 am
"Thanks for all the comments everyone. I hope it was a fitting article for such an influential coalition! News from the fight yesterday morning is that one was seen briefly with quite bad injuries to his testicles amongst other areas…but we don’t know the extent of the injuries just yet. We did find tracks for one deep in south of the reserve this morning but couldn’t locate him. It seems I underestimated the Kruger males. Although the remaining Mapogo are larger, I can only posit that their desire has left them and they merely seek to live out the rest of their days in relative peace.
They have graced the Sabi Sands with great memories and we are honoured to share what seems to be the end of their days here at Sabi Sabi. We will keep you posted on events as they happen."
Ranger Rich (Richard de Gouveia) says
July 27, 2012 at 9:57 am
"We found PB but no sign of Mak… PB was looking skinny and in my opinion didn’t seem very happy! We will keep u as informed as we can!"
RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve
July 26, 2012
"This morning we tracked Pretty Boy for about 8 kilometres before we found him looking exhausted and defeated. There is still no sign of Mak and by the look on Pretty Boy's face, it is not looking good."
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve
July 5, 2012
We were so happy to see that Pretty Boy is alive and well when we found him and Mak strolling through the South of the reserve this morning.
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve
July 31, 2012
Last night we found Pretty Boy looking fit and well after he clearly had a good meal. There were also tracks of an unknown male in the south today that could be Makhulu or the other Kruger male.
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Richard De Gouveia: "The tracks were in the same general area as PB but I can't be sure who they belong to!!!"
RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Pretty Boy is looking for Makhulu in western Sabi Sand
Idube Game ReserveAugust 1, 2012
Selati male, watching a Mapogo male, now
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Idube Game Reserve
7 August, 2012
"One of the males also caught a buffalo calf one evening, the commotion attracted the attention of what seems to be the last remaining member of the Mapogo male lion coalition that the Selatis ousted in March. The lone Mapogo cautiously approached the area until he could see what was happening, the Selati noticed the watching intrude and the two spent at least 30 minutes staring at one another from a distance of about 150m, eventually the Mapogo male broke the standoff by running away. A sensible move as soon after another Selati male was seen approaching the area with two Ximhungwe lionesses in tow."
RE: The mighty Mapogos - fursan syed - 01-11-2017
Mapogo Bloodline Watch A Buffalo Herd
The younger members of the Mangheni lion pride watching a herd of buffalo in front of Idube lodge.
Filmed at Idube Game Reserve in South Africa
RE: The mighty Mapogos - fursan syed - 01-11-2017
Pretty Boy (Oct 3 2009)
© Rob Vamplew
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - fursan syed - 01-11-2017
Pretty Boy
© Rob Vamplew
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - fursan syed - 01-11-2017
Mlowathi´s
Kinky Tail & Mr T
© WildEarth.tv
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - fursan syed - 01-11-2017
Pretty Boy
pc unknown
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - fursan syed - 01-11-2017
Makhulu and Mr T
(Aug 11 2011)
"Lions in the Sabi Sands private game reserve in South Africa. We found these during a morning game drive after a long and and very rainy night. I particularly like the 'dirty' look of the lions."
© Reis. In stijl.
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - fursan syed - 01-11-2017
Andrea and the Mapogos
(Nov 23 2006)
great job lady (Y)
© Andrea Keough
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Left: Pretty Boy, Mr.T, Kinky Tail, Dreadlocks
pc unknown
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https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/368310075755549429/
RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Graham Dyer - Mapogo Lions
July 12, 2009
"The aMapogo on Flockfield, Mala Mala on 20 Jan 2006 just after having left the Eyrefield pride (their Mothers and Aunts). They killed an adult male buffalo about 2 hours later."
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RE: The mighty Mapogos - Georgel - 01-11-2017
Mlowathis vs Manyeleti males
MALAMALA GAME RESERVE GAME REPORT
http://www.malamala.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Game-report-February-2013.pdf
Old male lion (2 sightings): This old male had been trailing a herd of buffalo in the northeast. We have discovered that he is around nine years of age. He was first seen to our north in 2008 and he was with another male lion. These two lions were known as the Manyeleti males. There is no connection with the four Manyelethi males that are currently dominant on MalaMala. A few years ago the pair had an encounter with the two Mlowathi (AKA ‘Mapogo’) males that were the incumbent males at the time. One of the two intruders sustained serious injury and he did not live for much longer. The remaining male, who has since been nicknamed ‘Joker’ in reference to a prominent gape in his right jaw, then travelled alone and was even seen mating with some lionesses in a pride known as the ‘Nkuhuma’ pride. He then vanished and has now returned to the area. He has few battle scars showing that he has been a nomad for most of his life.