Other male lion coalitions from Masai Mara

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(03-18-2025, 09:04 PM)Dangeroscos Wrote: I heard kijana and olchore are a duo now and Kijana died. I also heard they took over their first pride at 3y old, but it got taken over by bilashaka. (Don’t know exactly who they took theirs first pride from) So now they are nomads. They have shown to have the drive to be dominant. Why don’t they challenge a coalition right now? Or are they challenging someone and I simply don’t know about it? 


Kijana and olchore could challenge 
-orkirikoi✅
-Paradise males(Hunter 2 and ormagilani)
-Kissinger males(mzee and lorkinjei)
-sand river male(oloibor and manyewele)
-topi males (droopy and chungwa)
-fig tree male(osupaat)✅
-kola males (oloiborkwe and kiminati)
-maji ya fiji males bully and limpy
-irkisiausau male ✅

The ones with ✅ are single males. There are enough duo or single males they could challenge in my opinion. Also they have shown the drive to be dominant in my eyes. 

Could someone help me out please ?

They ousted the remaining Sankai males, they also don’t have a map for all these coalitions and the territories they hold, so it’s not as simple as ‘let’s find the weakest coalition / solitary male and take his pride.’ Even then, there’s a chance the neighbouring coalitions will play a part in helping to oust them, especially if they are also targeting the same territory to takeover in the future. 

This is what I believe happened when the 4 Inselberg males went into Orkirikoi territory a few months back, at a time when 3 Kaskaz males were also in the area, on top of 3 BRBs and then a few of the Paradise boys. Inselberg males crossed the river back into their territory with one of them limping, possibly due to fighting. All the coalitions in the area must’ve tricked them into thinking the area was ruled by a bigger coalition than Orkirikoi himself. 

Right now they’ve been spending time in the territory of Kaskaz males and even had a slight altercation with one of their members over a buffalo kill that belonged to Kijana and Olchore. 

By the way a lot of these coalitions u named are actual killers, so it’s not as easy as it seems, even with even numbers. Reply