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(03-06-2020, 04:54 PM)Spalea Wrote: Perhaps this video was already on the site, but remaining interesting nevertheless to see how the male lions don't hunt and kill accidentally but, on contrary, are able to plane their chase. Funny to see the second male sitting down exactly in front of the first one...
That proud look of Golden Mane, he knows he is the king. I said it before and will again, i dont like these false narratives that GM and HS where less dominant and less value lions in a coalition (well HS was after his 2014 hip injury), this comes from Londolozis blog and documentary which is just false.
We can see in few videos that GM was first to challenge DM for mating rights, and even beat him, while SN was just watching aside. GM was more dominant then SN, because of that SN went east with Kambulas, while GM and DM stayed west in their core territory with Mhangenis and Othawas.
OK, good ! You know the whole story of the Majingilane male lions (not I thus bravo !), but I don't believe that a male lion sitting down exactly in front of an other one makes that just to mark his domination. Lions aren't primitive animals but we aren't talking about a Shakespeare's theater performance... As we are speaking about kings (kings of animals, kings of writer's stories), the intrigues at cour aren't exactly at the same level among lions than among men... I'm joking !
More seriously, if this lion chooses to sit down in front of his brother in arms, it's clearly a sheer chance. He hadn't the conscious will to mark his domination. The lions don't premeditate their acts.