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(09-15-2017, 05:59 AM)Chris Wrote: How far is the northern male from the 2 southern matimbas?
Quite far. The southern matimbas are to the southeast of the manyeleti while the northern male is on the northwest corner of the manyeleti. Atleast 20 km I'd say.
Credits Field Guide: Liam Rainier
Simbambili Game Lodge Apr 18, 2014
H.b Matimba male lion
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One of the dominant male lions from the Matimba coalition graced us with his presence a couple days ago, he in fact picked up on the scent of the two young male leopards, Xivambalana and Wabayiza, who were in a territorial dispute before the Styx pride managed to maul the young male leopard. This extremely large male lion manage to sneak up on the leopards before they noticed him and moved off - the lion soon lost interest. After spending so time with him we got audio close by of the lion and leopard interaction between the Styx and Wabayiza - the leopards ran away from one lion and straight into the claws of another. The Styx pride were extremely vocal, roaring after they had fiercely mauled the leopard. To our amazement, the large Matimba male heard these roars and surprisingly turned the other way and with great speed he headed back up north into Vuyatela. He probably did not recognize the roars and without his brothers felt vulnerable, knowing that a couple of years ago at the exact same area, him and his brothers had a fierce confrontation with the mighty Majingilane.
Well 5 of them are from the Birmingham pride so if you do research on who we’re the pride males of the pride that should be there fathers when they were born, and 6th male which name was nduna the biggest and dominant of the coalition came from a single lioness
The old skybeds had a lot of sons then, with the "new" skybeds and the matimbas all beeing fathered by them.
I thought that the birminghams and matimbas some how were related because I knew that the matimbas came frome the birmingham pride.
Maby the wrong thread but how are the birmingham pride connected to the old birmingham male? Was he a male that was born in the birmingham pride (by another father than the old skybeds) or was he at some point a pride male?
Thanks to everyone who has messaged us requesting more information about some of the lions we’ve been posting images of. We’re happy to report that as of now, both the Matimba males are alive and well. They do frequent the northern parts of our Mluwati Concession (we were previously referring to these males as the Manyeleti males, before we discovered that they were in fact the Matimbas). Although they spend time in our Concession, they are quite nomadic, so we do not always see them regularly. Thanks again for all the interest in these magnificent creatures!
MALAMALA TODAY: October 6th & 7th: Another highlight was the surprise return of BOTH Clarendon/MATIMBA males- despite many theories and false claims surrounding their ‘disappearance’. They were seen in Clarendon Open Area and the aging males were not in great condition.
