Lions of Sabi Sands

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@Rui Ferreira I think the NK male doesn't have it in him, he is similar to his Kambula brothers, not as weak but in comparison lacks numbers and a life long bond.

I doubt they'd stand any chance against even an average duo of well established males, never mind a powerhouse like the PCM. I'd rank the old Avoca/Kruger duo as above these 2 any day.

@Tr1x24 not necessarily, enemy males have shared that territory before. Ravenscourt, Nhlanguleni and Dzunani shared that area during pre-Mapogo times.

HB and Othawa male shared it. Tumbelas and Othawa male as well.

Sometimes coalitions of similar strength will take over a part of the territory of the established coalition. OG Gijima stole Djuma and Nkuhumas from Mlowathi, but couldn't steal their core territory for example, or the N.Avocas pushing Bboys out of the northern parts of their territory, but never really came close of taking over and making a claim over the Kambula pride.

PCM couldn't care less about Southern Singita and Manghenis, they attack Othawas even after mating with them and Tsalala is just a lone lioness scared of the smaller PCM who is reported by an eyewitness to be chilling normally with the pride alongside his brother back in September before suddenly Tsalala ran from him hiding the cubs while he went after the cubs with aggressive motivations. Maybe he was confused if the cubs were his or not, there was no sighting of him with Tsalala prior to the cubs being born and now again he isn't seen with her, with his brother dominating the mating fully for weeks now, they also abandoned Nkuhumas and the north, they only care about the core Western Sector and Ximgungwes.

If another coalition of similar strength would try to claim the territory and prides the PCM barely cares about, there's a decent chance they wouldn't want to fight for it, nor would this coalition try to fight for the PCM's core territory as the PCM wouldn't give it up easily.

Also, worst case scenario, NK Breakaways are fully independent, Ximhungwe cubs are independent too and will be 2yo in half a year, the fully abandoned cubs will be 2yo in Feb-March, if they were fully ousted this year by more reliable pride males, it would still be likely to be better for most of the prides ( unless the new males are even worse pride males for them, but that we can't predict ). PCM are also strong enough to be able to easily become dominant again in some other area, so everybody wins. Reply