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Nice footage, can you make it as video and post it? It will be lost soon as its story.
Young SP females trying to play with Gijimas, its incredible how 2 males adopted them.
Hopefully Gijimas can hold on to the Southern pride for a long time so the 2 younger females can start rebuilding the pride with their mother. Southern pride used to be the biggest pride SS with like 10+ adult females and I hope they can achieve this glory again in the future
Is it my imagination, or was the Southern Lioness contact calling and looking around? Then, I heard a few cub-like calls! When did she start mating with the Gijimas? Her daughters only turned 2 last month! She came into estrous very soon, so she must have had confidence in these males for awhile now around her daughters and in protecting them! And it shows that she must be very sure about their abilities to hunt/look out for themselves much of the time.
10-11-2022, 07:11 PM( This post was last modified: 10-11-2022, 08:03 PM by Tonpa )
Lions
The Plains Camp male lions have truly stamped their authority on the central and western parts of the Sabi Sand pushing the Nkuhuma and Birmingham males back east.
This hasn’t boded well for the Othawa Pride as the pride is now down to a single lioness and two of her sub-adults. [Report error : Three subs are alive]
The Mhangene Pride seem to have spotted an opportunity to push back west as their pride of just four lionesses is now the largest pride of females, of the three prides in the area. They are looking in great condition and hopefully will be making a comeback to the numbers that they once were.
A recent discovery of a newborn cub, just days old, from one of the two Nkuhuma lionesses has everyone excited at Singita. The cub was seen right in the heart of Singita along the Mobeni drainage. We will give them the space they deserve during these early stages of the cub’s life.
The Plains Camp male lions have truly stamped their authority on the central and western parts of the Sabi Sand pushing the Nkuhuma and Birmingham males back east.
This hasn’t boded well for the Othawa Pride as the pride is now down to a single lioness and two (Three) of her sub-adults.
The Mhangene Pride seem to have spotted an opportunity to push back west as their pride of just four lionesses is now the largest pride of females, of the three prides in the area. They are looking in great condition and hopefully will be making a comeback to the numbers that they once were.
A recent discovery of a newborn cub, just days old, from one of the two Nkuhuma lionesses has everyone excited at Singita. The cub was seen right in the heart of Singita along the Mobeni drainage. We will give them the space they deserve during these early stages of the cub’s life.
The Plains Camp male lions have truly stamped their authority on the central and western parts of the Sabi Sand pushing the Nkuhuma and Birmingham males back east.
This hasn’t boded well for the Othawa Pride as the pride is now down to a single lioness and two (Three) of her sub-adults.
The Mhangene Pride seem to have spotted an opportunity to push back west as their pride of just four lionesses is now the largest pride of females, of the three prides in the area. They are looking in great condition and hopefully will be making a comeback to the numbers that they once were.
A recent discovery of a newborn cub, just days old, from one of the two Nkuhuma lionesses has everyone excited at Singita. The cub was seen right in the heart of Singita along the Mobeni drainage. We will give them the space they deserve during these early stages of the cub’s life.
The Plains Camp male lions have truly stamped their authority on the central and western parts of the Sabi Sand pushing the Nkuhuma and Birmingham males back east.
This hasn’t boded well for the Othawa Pride as the pride is now down to a single lioness and two (Three) of her sub-adults.
The Mhangene Pride seem to have spotted an opportunity to push back west as their pride of just four lionesses is now the largest pride of females, of the three prides in the area. They are looking in great condition and hopefully will be making a comeback to the numbers that they once were.
A recent discovery of a newborn cub, just days old, from one of the two Nkuhuma lionesses has everyone excited at Singita. The cub was seen right in the heart of Singita along the Mobeni drainage. We will give them the space they deserve during these early stages of the cub’s life.
The Plains Camp male lions have truly stamped their authority on the central and western parts of the Sabi Sand pushing the Nkuhuma and Birmingham males back east.
This hasn’t boded well for the Othawa Pride as the pride is now down to a single lioness and two (Three) of her sub-adults.
The Mhangene Pride seem to have spotted an opportunity to push back west as their pride of just four lionesses is now the largest pride of females, of the three prides in the area. They are looking in great condition and hopefully will be making a comeback to the numbers that they once were.
A recent discovery of a newborn cub, just days old, from one of the two Nkuhuma lionesses has everyone excited at Singita. The cub was seen right in the heart of Singita along the Mobeni drainage. We will give them the space they deserve during these early stages of the cub’s life.
“While sitting with a large herd of buffalo, we got audio of soft contact calls from lions. We immediately followed in the direction of the calls, and we were rewarded with the two younger Southern Pride females and the younger Gijima male. The two females were still looking into the distance, the contact calls continued. Eventually the older female appeared. The greeting of the females was a special moment; all three rubbing noses.
We have a suspicion that the older Southern Pride female has given birth in the past week or so as she often leaves the pride - we suspect to feed her newly born cub/s and returns. The area in which we think the cubs to be, has been closed off to vehicles to give them space to grow with no vehicle pressure.”
In the Mangheni thread someone posted a video of one of the PCM with a lioness of the pride. But what caught my attention was that the male's face was a mess and he also had wounds on his legs.
It seems too much to have been over mating rights and Nhenha was seen alone after the PCM chased his coalition out of the Western sector again so... Was the Nkuhuma male seen after that clash?
(10-13-2022, 12:18 AM)Mapokser Wrote: In the Mangheni thread someone posted a video of one of the PCM with a lioness of the pride. But what caught my attention was that the male's face was a mess and he also had wounds on his legs.
It seems too much to have been over mating rights and Nhenha was seen alone after the PCM chased his coalition out of the Western sector again so... Was the Nkuhuma male seen after that clash?
There’s been two sightings posted of Nkuhuma since. Not saying they were taken afterwards as we know how these things go.
@Tonpa just posted a video of the Birminghams together in Mala Mala . I’m waiting to hear from photographer as to when it was taken.
