Plains Camp Males

[Duco Ndona]

We shall see what happens. There are multiple reasons for male lions to prefer to hang out with one pride over the other, or for one pride to seek out or avoid males. 

The reason why we never see the PCmales that much with ridgenose may be becouse the pride was down to just one lioness feeding multiple still inexperienced but hungry subs.
So it could just as well have been the pride that decided to hide from the PCmales to prevent them from stealing kills they cannot afford to lose. 

The Mangheni pride is a big pride with lots of older cubs. So it would be a lot easier for them to defend kills and any kill made would be rapidly consumed before the PCmales could arive to steal it. With also no lionesses receptable for mating, there would be no reason for the PCmales to hang out there. 

The Ximhungwe pride is a much more ideal situation for them. There only being two adult lionesses with a few cubs means that hunting is not difficult with any decent sized kill resulting in plenty of food to go around. The constant threat of Skorro also meant that the pride had a good reason to not avoid the males as they need them for protection. The Ximhungwe lioness may also come back into estrus again any moment now, so it makes sense that this pride became their main base of operations.

Still after all those years pushing towards the west. They still haddent forgoten about the first pride they had success with, the Nkuhuma pride. So they kept an eye on the east part of their territory aswell. Always ready to react once there was a female ready to mate with. So if they, and thats still a big if, they decide to make Nkuhuma pride their new base of operations. They will likely still traverse towards the Ximhungwe pride occasionally to check on the situation there. 

Aslong Skorro doesnt return, (I still have my doubts about this friendship with Nym.) that will probably be fine as the mayor pressure for the PCmales always have came from the east by the BDM, Kambulas and Nwas as any other direction is fenced in. Though there is always risk of a coalition slipping through and wreaking havoc in the deep west. 
Should the Kambulas get their act together and start challenging the PCmales though. Then the PCmales will likely retreat to Ximhungwe pride themselves. Putting Mangheni and Ridge pride at risk. Reply