Avoca Male Lions and Their Male Lineage

[T_Ferguson]

(08-15-2024, 07:31 PM)BA0701 Wrote:

(08-15-2024, 07:53 AM)peter Wrote:

(08-14-2024, 07:56 PM)BA0701 Wrote: S Avoca, eating a warthog he'd caught earlier.

Large male. Anything known about the size of the Avoca males?

As @Potato mentioned, his brother was a very large and robust male, who disappeared a year and a half, to two years ago, after they were unseated by the young Nkhulu coalition. This boy returned back to their previous territory in southern Sabi Sands not long after, and has been hanging in the general vicinity of his old territory ever since. There has been some tough times for him, but in recent days he seems to be rebounding well, though it is doubtful he will become territorial again, as he seems more focused in just surviving at this point, and doing well, as the picture demonstrates.

I often wonder if they read the room right on the Nkhulu takeover.  After the S. Avocas beat down Dreadlocks DeLaparte, the Nkhulu's sort of splintered and at least 4 of them were in very poor health and the other 2 seemed less than froggy.  I know there was the incident with the Southern Lioness that they killed and ate, but I still think the 2 S. Avoca's could have easily held them off for at least this long. Reply