Lions of Sabi Sands

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(07-28-2024, 09:18 PM)Mapokser Wrote: @Mdz123 If the bigger PCM was to defend the cubs ( big if ), that wouldn't stop his brother from killing the cubs in a later opportunity. It happened before with the Mapogo.

@Ttimemarti we don't know if Tinyo mated with Tsalala's mother or not, in fact, him defending her is evidence that he did, males usually join their pride in attacking females they don't know, but are known to break fights between their different prides.

Also dominance changes day by day, throughout most of their lives, Makhunga was the most dominant, he dominated mating rights with all their females, from NK Breakaways, to Manghenis, to Ximhungwe, to Tsalala, to K6. Smaller male only won over the NK once or twice.

@Duco Ndona I agree the PCM are bad pride males, but they are not in fault for the killing of the first NK Breakaway female and we don't know if they were close enough to potentially save the second one but choose not to.

They couldn't have possibly done anything the first time as Manghenis met NK Breakaways in a kill and killed the female there, PCM were nowhere near them.

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Mapogos didn't allow Mr.T to kill the cubs, one waa injured during a feeding frenzy and the other 2 killed when the fathers weren't allowed.

This vid has been posted before but it shows Mr.T being kept away from the cub by Dreadlocks and PB:

The photographer says in the description that Mr.T respected them and didn't come any closer but later found the cub alone and killed them.

@Mapokser , thank you for explaining that. I was always of the impression that the others didn't necessarily permit him to kill them, "allowed" being a poor choice of words in my comment, but that they didn't intervene. So, then Brothers in Blood actually had the narrative pretty accurate in how they described it. Thank you, again, now it makes more sense. Reply