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The Mighty Mapogos

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Male Lions in the Sabi Sand - an update
June 22, 2011 at 10:46am

Forty-eight  hours ago we located 3 adult male lions just north of the lodge (presumed to be the ones people refer to as “the Mapogos”).  We found them by responding to vocalization; it sounded like a massive fight between adult male lions. On locating these three, we noticed that they had been badly beaten, were bloodied and received massive fresh scars from the ensuing morning battle. The three of them walked off with a very determined striding pace and didn’t even stop or look back to the area where the battle took place and continued south and west across the Sand river into the western Sabi Sand and we haven’t seen them since. Meanwhile south of the river, roughly around the same time, some new male lions killed a younger male from the southern pride.  We presumed the murderers to be the so called “Majingilanes".  We haven’t had too much exposure to these individuals and thus will be trying to put together some photo identity kits of these individuals. What is important to note, is that these were not necessarily the same individuals involved in the skirmish north of the river! We never located the individuals that ousted the “Mapogos” and thus could well have been other individuals. Unfortunately this is all we have at this stage, but will keep you posted should we have a more accurate assessment as to what is currently happening amongst the territorial males in the area.
 
Update by Mark Broodryk, Head Guide, Singita Sabi Sand

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https://www.facebook.com/notes/singita/m...4832129017

(This is also part of the post #260 in the thread dedicated to the Matimbas.)
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Dreadlocks on a Hippo Kill
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Kinky Tail (Nov 29 2008)

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Dreadlocks with the Mohawk Mane (June 2007)
Dreadlocks together with one of his brothers

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Pretty Boy Mapogo
(July 13 2011)


"Hoping to rob the leopard of its food or to have leopard as food I suppose. But the male leopard was up the tree already, and it had been mating, not feeding.

Anyway, the lions had plonked themselves down for a bit, looking longingly up at the leopard now and then. The leopard soon settled itself down, and did not look like it would be descending for a while. Maybe it was thanking the lions for breaking up his marathon mating session (and getting smacked for his troubles). The lions soon got bored and moved off.

As there were no leopard kills for the lions to rob, no leopards for the lions to kill, and we were just killing time, we decided to move on too. It was only 8 in the morning of that dreary 13th, and we had already had mating leopards and lions chasing one up a tree. Neil, our ranger said that some lionesses with cubs had been sighted in the area. So we said, "Sure!", but thinking "Cubs, Shcubs!", not to mention flat lions.

We were already happy campers, but we went lion cub hunting."

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Mr T vs 2 Lionesses during a take-over
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Kinky-Tail, the Ghost in the Darkness

This is an image I took some time ago in the Sabi Sands. An afternoon drive saw us run into some Male Lion's from the Mapogo coalition close to dusk, they were on the move so as we slowly progressed back to camp we followed them for a while. Light began to drop fast and a tracker on one of the other vehicles pulled out his spotlight and I got this one shot of this male lion walking out from the bushes to the left.

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Mr T Mapogo 
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I came across this photo this morning in my catalog of the late male lion, the infamous Mr-T.
Mr-T was the leader of what were possibly the most infamous, notorious and ruthless pride of lions to ever rule in the African bush, the Mapogo Lions, also referred to as the "Band of Brothers".
This photo was taken early one morning just as the sun was about to rise. This is clearly a face nobody would ever want to wake up to. One can only imagine the fear all his victims felt when this was the face they last saw before they were ambushed and killed.
Mr-T earned his name from his classic Mohawk hairstyle resembling that of the Mr-T character from the 80's television series The A-Team.


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I will be the prettiest boy you want me to be. Touch my meat though and things could get ugly... real ugly!

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An angry Mr. T.


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Lion warfare of yesterday
(photo: Mak, Mr T, PB and Dreadlocks 2010)

Mapogos vs Skukuzas
The Mapogos fight and defeat a coalition of 4 Males from Skukuza in 2008. Limited info on the conflict but according to this account with Rich Laburn, the Mapogos proved too much for the Skukuza coalition. The result of the conflict was a resounding victory for the Mapogo coalition.
"It's Good that the Legendary Mapogo Coalition is Back, These Lion updates are really great to read and eagerly awaited by many,It seems that the new young males are heading for some rough time as they are battling the Dreaded Mapogo Coalition and perhaps they are not aware of the Mapogos Power ,In 2008 the Mapogos Completely destroyed the Four Skukuza Males and this time also if they catch the intruding young males they are going to Destroy these Four Young males as well. I feel someone should make a Wildlife documentary on the Amazing life of Legendary Mapogos."
- Ravi
"Hi Ravi, that's interesting to hear about the Skukuza males in 2008. It appears that the Mapogos are used to defending their prime territory. I agree that it would be remarkable to put together a documentary detailing the history and lives of these Lions."
- Rich Laburn of Londolozi
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Credits: The Mapgos - Lions of Sabi sands FB page
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