Birmingham Pride of lions

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(07-27-2021, 02:09 AM)Mohawk Wrote:

(07-25-2021, 04:58 PM)Tonpa Wrote: Has there ever been an incident where a young male was never kicked out and joined the coalition?

Not quite like this.  Mapoza accepted the Xikukutsus, but he was a lone male and there are two of them.

The Avocas were pretty tolerant of NkYM.  I wonder if he'd been as determined to stick around as BYM, if a similar situation would have played out.  I doubt it, though.

The craziest part is that BYM had chances to form a coalition with males his own age in recent months.  I think he bumped into one of his cousins from the Birmingham Breakaway and didn't link up.  I know he met the Torchwood male (a more distant cousin) and chased him away. 

He was also seen wistfully watching the Tintswalo males last year when they were still nomads.  He may have been intimidated by the size of their group so I don't really blame him for not trying to join them.

He is a strange cat for sure, pun intended. He ran off the Torchwood male, when they encountered each other (a perfect matchup if they could have gotten along imo), he also bumped into the young Mbiri males while they were feeding on a kill, but I don't think they even knew he was there. He is really close with the white male, so that seemed like a natural fit, and we still don't know if they might still form a coalition at some point, and there is also a male from the Birmingham breakaway pride that is nearly the exact same age as BYM, and I had hoped that they might meet up one day. Whatever happens, seems he is going to be the one making the decision. When it comes to this guy, the best thing to do is to go in expecting the unexpected. Definitely an outlier. If you watch that video of them feeding together, he was really hesitant to start feeding, very cautious, he was watching every move the Ross males made very closely, so he was not at ease there, in fact he seemed much more concerned by their presence than they did his.

As @Tr1x24 mentioned, he does great with the cubs, shades of Othawa Male come to mind in watching him interact with the little ones, so I am sure that is playing a huge role in this as well. Reply