Lions of Sabi Sands

[Cath2020]

(09-29-2021, 05:59 PM)Timbavati Wrote:

(09-29-2021, 05:24 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:

(09-29-2021, 02:19 AM)Cath2020 Wrote: Throwback to a younger, lovely, Torchwood Lioness, Smudge Nose.  Posted in 2018.  Daughter of the boss Hairy Belly Matimba.  A whole generation has passed in just a few years!  

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(09-29-2021, 02:33 AM)Timbavati Wrote: She's a good looking lioness. I'm still fairly curious with the age of this lioness. Here the pigmentation of his nose is still pink, Which makes me believed she isn't too old, around 7 or 8 as much, I guess; But apparently, from what I heard, she isn't daughter of the Matimba males. Hope someday I can clear that doubt.

Again, she is not sired by Matimbas no by Hairy Belly, she is 1 of the 4 original Torchwood lionesses. 

Here are more few photos. 

 June 2012 :

Photo Credit : Tristan Dicks

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April 2015

Photo Credits : Karin van der Merwe

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Matimba cubs where born in early 2014 (if she was sired by Matimbas, she would be 1,5 yrs old on picture above..) and she is actually mother of Torchwood/Fourways male. 

March 2017  (Smudge on her nose appeared) 

Photo Credit : Cheetah Plains 

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June 2018 

Photo Credit : Nkorho Bush Lodge 

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This is the Torchwood lioness in 2015 in Sabi Sands
Photo credits: Cheryl Anne Hamilton
She's definitely daughter of HB, Pink nose and the teeth aren't worn and yellow, which indicates that she's still a cub/sub-adult.

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Yes, I knew she was HB's daughter.  The smudge on the nose and the fact that there was no other photo of her before 2014 that could have been of her.  The amount of pink in her nose from the 2018 photo clued me in that she could not be born way back in 2010.  She's the stand-out lioness of the Torchwood Pride.  Several of her older relatives do have rich amber eyes, though, even more than HB.  They lack the very ridged nose of some of the Matimba offspring.

Nice photo of her as a sub-adult.  That smudge was even more apparent! Reply