Lions of Timbavati

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(02-07-2025, 11:29 AM)sunless Wrote: Update from the Sandringham

sandringhamreserve As wildlife rehabilitation efforts continue at Sandringham Private Game Reserve, we are gaining deeper insights into the diverse cat species that call the reserve home.

Currently, to the best of our knowledge, the reserve is home to approximately 20 lions. The Sandringham Black Dam Pride consists of eight adult females, three sub-adult males, four young cubs - including a rare white male - and three very young cubs. The dominant males include the Sandringham Xikukutsu male and a second Xikukutsu male, who appears less frequently.

As these lions grow more accustomed to our presence, we look forward to sharing more regular updates on them.

So assuming some of those females aren’t offspring of the Xikukutsus, it means the Black Dam females who first went over there with Giraffe Male have now joined back up with the three breakaway lionesses and formed a full pride once again. That would be the best case scenario instead of most of them going missing. 

We’ll see tho, if majority of the lionesses are quite young then they’re actually daughters of Xikukutsus and are strangely referred to as adult females whereas the males are still seen as subadults. Just read it back and there’s no mention of females elsewhere, so it seems the female offspring is already added to that count, and all of them are seen as adults meaning the reunion was unlikely.

I think the white cub being a male is great too for ppl who care about it, the white gene already runs in the pride so now he can spread it to other prides if he’s successful in raising his own offspring. Aside from the Birmingham breakaway white male who’s a tank, I’ve never really cared about white lions. Reply