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(06-28-2021, 09:42 PM)Gijima Wrote: Absolutely. In fact I have lots of respect for guides who can piece together the events of a fight just through drag marks and track marks. The whole Phinda drama wasn't seen by anyone but they figured out the exact details of the fight through tracking. Having said that, there are just as many guides who completely butcher lion IDs, and speculate, and come up with incorrect assumption. In fact I just heard one today. And TrX, who criticizes Londolozi and other reserves when he doesn't agree with their reporting, has a huge problem because I said guides can get IDs of animals wrong in pitch darkness when they themselves agreed they didn't see the fight. I have no problem agreeing a fight happened but I'm not convinced about the IDs of the lions... big deal. Not sure why this is worth getting offended over.
Apparently it is a big deal for you..
By your logic we need to ditch 90% of reports from those reserves, of which we dont have evidence and only guides/rangers words..
I criticized Londolozi because of their force narratives, not lions ID's..
You dont believe Lion Sands on their word that it was DeLaportes, but you believe this report from MalaMala :
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"possibly" chased, because they found tracks of N'waswitshakas going west?? how dare they go back to their territory, they must be running from S. Avocas..