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(Yesterday, 04:48 AM)Mapokser Wrote: While all Kambulas are very slow in terms of displaying territorial behavior, K5 looks to be the most "hopeless" of them, I don't think I've ever seen him mating or giving chase to anybody.
He was involved in numerous fights and chases, in fact, he was in most fights out of all his brothers.
Just last year he was in atleast 4 fights where his back/legs got mauled (unknown injuries at the beginning of 2024, PCMs fight, RRM fight, unknown injuries in Londolozi).
He just kinda lacks "drive" for females, he looks more "nomadic" than his bros, from what we seen.
Maybe those maulings are problem, just as he recovers and gains confidence, he again gets mauled and needs to start over again, but that again is more problem of their group, with lack of teamplay.
Personally, I believe every beating that any of the K4s has suffered, was a needless one. The lack of team play, that you mentioned, is the reason any of them has suffered at all. If they were a tight knit group, and supported each other in the way one would expect of brothers who have been together their entire lives, I do not believe that any of those beatings happens
And the one time (that we know of) that a 2nd Kambula brother joined a fight where his brother was taking a beating, his brother attacked the wrong lion.
Poor K5 had a really rough run, during that time, and that mauling by K4 may well have damaged his tail permanently.