Othawa Pride

[RookiePundit]

Yeah, anything human caused, I guess we could never make a taxative list, some things might be freak accidents beyond out imagination, like Tsalala males being electrocuted. Most recent intervention (in Sabi Sands) iirc was Blondie Avoca checked due to suspected gunshot wound (false alarm, still sad it had to be seriously considered).

As for bloodlines, they don't matter per se, you could have a sanctuary or enclosure without functioning ecosystem and once in a while bring new lions everytime, but then there is something about one animal's life fulfilled with growing up, siring offspring/giving birth and finishing the circle with the young reaching adulthood/independence and reproducing themselves. This is an important milestone in captive breeding/conservation especially in case of species with longer lifespan and difficult husbandry, here in this case it is just a matter of that happening on its own and validating the ecosystem working well to an extent. Getting to know the particular specimen makes us want them to live a fulfilling life and succeed like that, although all of them can't at least some should for the population (and subsequently the whole system depending on the impact of the species) not becoming too volatile. One can hardly refrain from not getting attached a bit to particular group or an individual, but in the end that means nothing, one has to make room for another at times. I tend to approach (not just) lion dynamics of Sabi Sands/Kruger as a chronicle just being written in front of out eyes, with animals of lifespan shorter than our, following the continuation of them throuhg their progeny is unevitable, if only just to underline the perpetuality of the whole thing. Ending abruptly with dead end for some at times. But everything has its reasonbale levels, calling those animals royalty, king, queens, princes and taking sides or outright wishing harm on competition is silly to say the least, we want to see stories of succes, or rather succes in the sense of lives fulfilled, individuals too succesful especially over span of more generation would be rather bad, as the more genetic diversity of the population the better (sans detrimental genetic predispositions I guess, although those help in population control through natural selction after all though), although we would not mind some genetics becoming more widespread for selfish reasons at times (mainly the visually based ones and perhaps temperament/personality/demeanor as much as it is possibly influenced by genes rather than learned (which mostly is I guess).

But these days, every idiot is free to have an opinion and social media as a platform and sort of people like to virtue signal be going on silly holy wars (for the sake of feeling good, not actually reaching their goals) and sadly many organizations have to deal with those nonsenses for PR reasons, safari related ones surely not being an exception. Reply