Styx Pride

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(12-04-2022, 12:35 AM)Duco Ndona Wrote: The relation between prides and male lions is a strained one. Male lions, especially larger coalitions are a huge drain on the prides resources. So, they are glad when the males make themself scarce for a while. A pride won't do anything to keep the male lions close like begging or offering sex.

So, each times the males go on a patrol or something. The pride is at first relieved and looking forward to not having to share food.
But they still need them for protection. So, if they are away for too long the pride slowly starts to worry about their protection and begin to panics the longer it last. Cumulating in these enthusiastic greetings and grooming when they do return to reinforce the bonds and scent marks that reinforces their relationship. 

If they don't, however, by the time the pride realizes they are in trouble it's far too late to beg for them to stay.

Yep, pride in a way wants and doesnt want their dominant males around, they take their food (which is -), but they provide protection (which is +), so in a way thats a balance.

But pride cant keep their dominant males around if they are not in estrus and males have another mating opportunities in another pride.

Their offspring in that pride means almost nothing to them ( i said almost nothing, as obiviously they mean something, otherwise they would kill them at first sigh), they will not stay and protect it with their lifes. 

Males are self-centered, they dont fight for pride or their offspring, thats wrong assumption and myth. 

They fight for themselves, their territory, because they know if they lose it, they lose all benefits of it, which is having prides/females under their belt, which provides mating opportunities and easy food, 2 most important things in male lions life. Reply