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RE: The Birmingham Males - Potato - 11-22-2018
Only god knows it :) However Avocas are now fully focused on Talamati and Nkuhuma pride it can take many months or even more before they push on other prides and by that time this subadult very likelly will be already old enought to go on their own.
RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-23-2018
The Avocas appear to be judicious (or at least energy saving) in their approach to killing existing cubs from prides they are trying to mate with, at least this is what has occurred with the Nkuhumas where they have not killed any of the subadults including the young Mangheni and Talamati males who have been hanging out with them, and only shown aggression when females are in oestrus, such as the recent case of the young Talamati male who was trying to mount one of the Nkuhumas (assumed to be in oestrus) with subsequent reports that he was chased off. As far as the Talamati pride goes, it was reported by Arathusa that the sub adult males were chased off when the Avocas approached the pride, but clearly they weren't killed.
In the meantime, they can't expand too far with this guy and his two (probably not three) bros around. Image by Nic Nel, November 23, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-23-2018
Sneaking up on sleeping lions... One of my absolute favourite images from the recent trip to Africa, one ranger carefully illuminated this sleeping giant, all tuckered out after a kill, allowing me to fire off a few shots of him from a bean bag. Image by Pete Short at Mala Mala, November 22, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-25-2018
Nsuku. Image by Andrew Danckwerts at Mala Mala, November 24, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-25-2018
Tynio. Image by Reggi Barreto at Mala Mala, November 24, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-25-2018
Credit: Londolozi The Week in Pictures by James Souchon, November 24, 2018
A single Birmingham male was found in the early morning sunlight as he marched towards the distant roars of his brothers. He eventually lost interest and settled up in the shade of a tree for the rest of the day.
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The Ntsevu Pride were not seen as often as we had hoped this week but even so we managed to have some great sightings of them with their new cubs. With so many cubs to look after they have their work cut out for them over the next few months as they try and get through this vulnerable age. Luckily for the lionesses the Birmingham males continue to remain a strong and stable coalition in their area and this bodes well for the protection of the cubs.
These six belong to two different lionesses and with knowledge that most of the other lionesses have also given birth we are all very excited at the prospect of seeing the whole pride together at some stage.
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-25-2018
Nhenha. Image by Linza van Aswegen. November 24, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-26-2018
It seems as though Nsuku has been a good dad, continuing to hang around the Kambulas and provide protection, while Nhenha at least takes off to mate with the Tsalala lioness. The way those girls are built they probably only need one male around at a time for that purpose. Image by Andrew Danckwerts at Mala Mala, November 25, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-26-2018
Image by Andrew Tuffnell at Londolozi, November 25, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - J-boVFL - 11-26-2018
Are the Bboys content with only controlling the kambulas and the lone tsalala ? I wonder when will they take full control of the mhangeni pride they don't seem to spend any time with them although they have sired cubs with them .
RE: The Birmingham Males - Tshokwane - 11-26-2018
(11-26-2018, 08:02 AM)J-boVFL Wrote: Are the Bboys content with only controlling the kambulas and the lone tsalala ? I wonder when will they take full control of the mhangeni pride they don't seem to spend any time with them although they have sired cubs with them .
I think we'll see the answer to that question once the cubs get a little bigger and the females' attention is fully dedicate to the subadults, instead of to the males.
Now it seems they are "doing little", but remember they have a big territory that encompases both Londolozi and MalaMala, so it is not as if they are just content to be where they are.
It is a lot of land to patrol, especially not ehy are only three.
RE: The Birmingham Males - J-boVFL - 11-26-2018
Tshokwane thanks and I agree they do have a lot of ground to cover for 3 males . The dynamics will continue to be interesting moving forward . They seem to be a safe distance from other coalitions as well as I haven't heard of them having any run ins with other males recently aside from the Othawa male they have a lot of offspring to protect from the other predators as well.
RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-26-2018
Nsuku with the domestic duties in Mala Mala. Image by Jaques Proust, November 26, 2018
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Images by Christoph Graf, November 26, 2018
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Image by Andrew Danckwerts, November 26, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-27-2018
Tynio with massive paws, but wearing a limp at Mala Mala. Video and image by Brendan Ryan, November 26, 2018
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RE: The Birmingham Males - Herekitty - 11-28-2018
Tynio must be pretty smitten with this lioness, he followed her from Mala Mala to to Londolozi. Image by Bennetatlondolozi, November 27, 2018
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