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(11-17-2024, 08:12 AM)Mapokser Wrote: I can't even believe they entered old age late last year, with Shaka badly injured, both constantly in horrible shape throughout several months, with Avoca & Guernsey attacking their pride, things didn't look good, but they bounced back, recovering their condition, dispatching the enemy pressuring them and are now almost always in top condition for 11yo males.
Makes me wonder and think possibly Shaka and ZigZag might be immine to TB or possibly not have it at all as I would venture to guess a high percentage of other lions would have succumb to the illness after being beat down so many times, especially at an older age living with BovTB. If I remember correctly weren't they darted and checked for it in the past?
I believe Shaka, since a couple of months, has a TB mark on the side of his body. I heard lions in Kruger get tested for it and then they mark them. Maybe someone can confirm