Lions of Sabi Sands

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(04-18-2024, 05:33 AM)Mapokser Wrote: I don't doubt Tumbelas were darted on Kruger on stopped on Singita.

I'm a bit skeptical about them walking all the way to the Western Sector by themselves.

That is highly unlikely.

There would be no point in doing so. The SS-Manyeleti-Timbavati region is one of the more lion-abundant regions in a 2 million hectare ecosystem (and that excludes Mozambique and Zimbabwe) and so there would be no need to translocate animals when they can simply disperse on their own.

And while there have been very questionable, if not terrible, decisions made in terms of translocating lions across Kruger, those decisions were made by officials working for the state-run KNP. 

The SS region is a collection of private reserves whose game management decisions are better informed by ecology and local population dynamics (not to say they are perfect but more often than not, they make ecologically sound decisions). 


So, keeping that in mind, as well as the fact that the Otthawa pride had an ancient HB and vulnerable cubs, it wouldn't make sense for SS to dart three nomadic males and drop them all they way in Singita. Reply