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(06-02-2024, 03:46 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: Those injuries are from fights for mating rights, bigger maned males has those scars for a while now.
Yes, but this report says one of them is limping as well. Could be just fighting each other, but lord... they are going to take each other out before other lions have the chance.
I’m usually cautious about speculation, but I’m starting to think they may have had a hand in the disappearance of the smaller-maned BDM. He was last seen running away from them in Singita, and then suddenly only his brother shows up in the north and is immediately submissive to the Talamati young male (Khanya). Meanwhile the smaller PCM has picked up a limp and Makhunga seems to have picked up a couple more facial scars. And according to the Elephant Plains report the two of them were last seen mating with an Nkuhuma Lioness on Tuesday, and they were relatively far apart, so clashing over mating rights seems a bit more unlikely… might be far-fetched but I have a sneaking suspicion they caught the BDM.