Lions of Sabi Sands

[Ttimemarti]

(06-18-2024, 10:12 PM)NLAL11 Wrote:

(06-18-2024, 09:49 PM)GhostCatP-22 Wrote:

(06-18-2024, 09:01 PM)Ttimemarti Wrote:

(06-18-2024, 08:27 PM)Duco Ndona Wrote: Who knows, ultimately its all just speculation. Nobody ever saw any of the fights, but each time people just assume he abandoned his partner. 
While in reality there are all sorts of scenarios possible. He may have simply been not present at the fights. His arrival may have been enough for the attackers to back off as lions typically don't prefer equal fights. 
He may have been chased away by both Gijimas or PCmales.


I am sorry if I came over a bit strong on this, but all I am asking is that we need to be careful not to fall into some kind of Nkuhuma the cowardly lion narrative.

All good friend he is definitely not a coward no lion is a coward in my eyes but it’s just a pattern of him losing partners and he has zero scars to show I mean we don’t know what happened to the bigger southern avoca but his brother returned to mala mala all beaten up

It’s a different survival strategy and if he’s “happy” then good for him. He’s just gonna have to really step up in one way or another to be a pride male. There’s a fair bit of competition now. Would he defend lionesses and cubs from invading lions? Would he be really serious about patrolling and scent marking? I hope he gets the chance.

But being a pride male is about more than just having a good survival strategy. As you said he needs to 'step up', because his behaviour so far indicates that he would not defend a pride and cubs. I think that's what people are pointing to when they talk about him running away. Not necessarily that he's a coward, but there's a reason he's not become a pride male yet. And there's a reason he's had multiple partners who have all either died or at least been caught by other males, while he seems to get away unscathed. At some point a male has to stop just trying to survive and show some dominance and aggression.

This is true but he has some sort of aggressive side he and nhenha did almost make the othawa pride go extinct but we don’t know who did what could’ve been all nhenha but I hope he become a pride male but it likely won’t happen in sabi sands unless he takes the othawa pride Reply