Other male lion coalitions from Masai Mara

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(03-12-2023, 06:27 AM)Mapokser Wrote: I'm trying to learn more about the famous Notch Coalition and came across this:

Jonathan Kaelo, a safari and photography guide with over 10 years’ experience in the Maasai Mara and founder of Meikan Safaris, remembers the coalition’s rise and dominance.

“My guiding career began almost at the same time when Notch and his sons built one of the biggest and fiercest coalitions ever seen in the Mara. Notch was a brilliant and beautiful black-maned lion and it took guts and skill to build this complicated union with his sons. The six lions dominated the Mara, over 1,000 square kilometres, for years and sired dozens of cubs in almost all of the prides here.

https://theafricaninsider.com/the-legend...asai-mara/

Did they truly controlled such ridiculously big territory? If so I think it's probably by far the the largest territory a lion coalition has ever controlled that we are aware of.

The more I try to learn about them, the more it's impossible to say they aren't the greatest of modern times.  Not only did they hold that, but their offspring continued the dominance.  Spearboy is still limping around today (son of Notch II and about 10 years old), and I swear his families legacy is so powerful other lions just let him feed with them as a sign of respect to his once great family.  Morani is believed to be another son of the Notch's (now 14 or 15) that gets that same type of royal treatment in the Mara. Reply