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11-16-2024, 01:58 AM( This post was last modified: 11-16-2024, 02:00 AM by KM600 )
Posting in here given the context it comes with, it’s said Mantimahle males are responsible for this beating, I’ve not heard any other info about if they split all the Kambula males or singled out K4. Photo credit: @elize_roets.
(11-16-2024, 01:58 AM)KM600 Wrote: Posting in here given the context it comes with, it’s said Mantimahle males are responsible for this beating, I’ve not heard any other info about if they split all the Kambula males or singled out K4. Photo credit: @elize_roets.
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Looks like he may have gotten the RRM treatment, held down by his face, while the other worked on the backside. He's lucky to still be alive, and to still have his balls.
(11-16-2024, 02:50 AM)Ttimemarti Wrote: I’d assume his brothers rescued him or no? Either these guys are really good fighters while being outnumbered 1v2 or they’ve just been extremely lucky
It's seeming to be much more dumb luck than anything. At this point, I'll be shocked if these boys live another 2 years.
Damn, k4, that's not good even tho he's slowly putting weight on. With all the moving they do i doubt he can keep up with jis 3 brothers like this. He can barely walk. Not good. These guys shouldn't be getting picked off 1 by 1. They need to take a territory and start acting like it together. It's time.
11-17-2024, 04:27 PM( This post was last modified: 11-17-2024, 04:28 PM by NLAL11 )
I know this only contains footage of the Kambula pride, but I thought I would put it in the main thread as it concerns other predators. Namely the Nkoveni leopardess and her offsrping. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had heard about this altercation, and wanted more information. An interesting fact (Sean talks about it in the video), that the leopards were walking with the wind, meaning their scent was blown towards the lions, who smelt them before they even saw them. Sean says leopards, and particularly a mother with cubs, will tend to walk into the wind, so that scents and smells are blown towards them, giving them a warning if there is any danger ahead. Odd for such an experienced mother to do this, and she paid for it this time.
Viewer discretion: The Kambula pride ambushing the Nkoveni female and her two (at the time) remaining cubs, and killing the female cub.
Great news is that the young male did in fact survive the encounter. I had seen comments on YT saying he hadn't been found, which were not true as he was found 3 days later. This to me signals strong survival instincts and, fingers crossed, hopefully means he has a good chance of making it to independence. He would be her first male cub to do so. On another note, I didn't realise the Nkoveni female was also the mother of the Plaque Rock female, raised to adulthood but killed by the Ntsevu pride, meaning she has now lost three daughters to this one family of lions.
(11-17-2024, 04:27 PM)NLAL11 Wrote: I know this only contains footage of the Kambula pride, but I thought I would put it in the main thread as it concerns other predators. Namely the Nkoveni leopardess and her offsrping. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had heard about this altercation, and wanted more information. An interesting fact (Sean talks about it in the video), that the leopards were walking with the wind, meaning their scent was blown towards the lions, who smelt them before they even saw them. Sean says leopards, and particularly a mother with cubs, will tend to walk into the wind, so that scents and smells are blown towards them, giving them a warning if there is any danger ahead. Odd for such an experienced mother to do this, and she paid for it this time.
Viewer discretion: The Kambula pride ambushing the Nkoveni female and her two (at the time) remaining cubs, and killing the female cub.
Great news is that the young male did in fact survive the encounter. I had seen comments on YT saying he hadn't been found, which were not true as he was found 3 days later. This to me signals strong survival instincts and, fingers crossed, hopefully means he has a good chance of making it to independence. He would be her first male cub to do so. On another note, I didn't realise the Nkoveni female was also the mother of the Plaque Rock female, raised to adulthood but killed by the Ntsevu pride, meaning she has now lost three daughters to this one family of lions.
What makes me really confused are some people in the comments getting pressed because " they didnt save her"
What do they want them to do in this situation?
(11-17-2024, 04:27 PM)NLAL11 Wrote: I know this only contains footage of the Kambula pride, but I thought I would put it in the main thread as it concerns other predators. Namely the Nkoveni leopardess and her offsrping. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had heard about this altercation, and wanted more information. An interesting fact (Sean talks about it in the video), that the leopards were walking with the wind, meaning their scent was blown towards the lions, who smelt them before they even saw them. Sean says leopards, and particularly a mother with cubs, will tend to walk into the wind, so that scents and smells are blown towards them, giving them a warning if there is any danger ahead. Odd for such an experienced mother to do this, and she paid for it this time.
Viewer discretion: The Kambula pride ambushing the Nkoveni female and her two (at the time) remaining cubs, and killing the female cub.
Great news is that the young male did in fact survive the encounter. I had seen comments on YT saying he hadn't been found, which were not true as he was found 3 days later. This to me signals strong survival instincts and, fingers crossed, hopefully means he has a good chance of making it to independence. He would be her first male cub to do so. On another note, I didn't realise the Nkoveni female was also the mother of the Plaque Rock female, raised to adulthood but killed by the Ntsevu pride, meaning she has now lost three daughters to this one family of lions.
What makes me really confused are some people in the comments getting pressed because " they didnt save her"
What do they want them to do in this situation?
Sean said the same thing in the video. And I think he made a very good point that if they had tried to intervene, they could have just made things worse and the whole family might have been killed. It's like they don't even watch the video, or they watch but don't listen. But hey, people on YT.
11-17-2024, 08:24 PM( This post was last modified: 11-17-2024, 08:47 PM by Rabubi )
(11-17-2024, 06:17 PM)Rui Ferreira Wrote:
(11-17-2024, 04:27 PM)NLAL11 Wrote: I know this only contains footage of the Kambula pride, but I thought I would put it in the main thread as it concerns other predators. Namely the Nkoveni leopardess and her offsrping. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had heard about this altercation, and wanted more information. An interesting fact (Sean talks about it in the video), that the leopards were walking with the wind, meaning their scent was blown towards the lions, who smelt them before they even saw them. Sean says leopards, and particularly a mother with cubs, will tend to walk into the wind, so that scents and smells are blown towards them, giving them a warning if there is any danger ahead. Odd for such an experienced mother to do this, and she paid for it this time.
Viewer discretion: The Kambula pride ambushing the Nkoveni female and her two (at the time) remaining cubs, and killing the female cub.
Great news is that the young male did in fact survive the encounter. I had seen comments on YT saying he hadn't been found, which were not true as he was found 3 days later. This to me signals strong survival instincts and, fingers crossed, hopefully means he has a good chance of making it to independence. He would be her first male cub to do so. On another note, I didn't realise the Nkoveni female was also the mother of the Plaque Rock female, raised to adulthood but killed by the Ntsevu pride, meaning she has now lost three daughters to this one family of lions.
What makes me really confused are some people in the comments getting pressed because " they didnt save her"
What do they want them to do in this situation?
Try to ignore such people, my friend. They don't know what they are talking about.
