Othawa Pride

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(11-01-2022, 12:24 AM)criollo2mil Wrote: 2022 started badly for me and has not let up:  many many stories I’ve been close with 

Mhangeni Sub lost; then Bus, then Kupona, Mhangeni lioness, Limper, Talamati Stompie, PE, Aunties, Old Styx, Styx Boys, then blondie, Maybe Silvereye, Maybe last Mhangeni SubAdult then Sassy’s situation.   Yes, every year it’s losses, but it seems it’s been much more unrelenting in 2022.  

Most of those are 10-15 years old females (who lived quite long and fulfiling life as wild lions, nobody is immortal) , subs/cubs (of which death rate is very high anyways, their demises shouldnt "suprise" us as we know that only 20% of cubs and a bit higher % of subs reach adulthood) and sick lions (for them is better to be gone then to suffer without hope).

Although also sad, but for me it doesnt hit as hard (because of this reasons above), as seeing adult, healthy, young lion, in his best years, go. Reply