Lions from Botswana

[BA0701]

(04-05-2025, 11:15 AM)KM600 Wrote: 1/2 Mababe males, since the guides I follow left the area I have zero info on these boys for now. They were last trying to takeover a second pride while their 3 dominant ‘Mokete’ males had went missing, but no idea what happened with that, nor about the condition of their own pride with the one lioness and 8 cubs.

Btw I was reading an article, and that claim u made @BA0701 about that Northern Pride lioness actually being from Marsh Pride might have actually been right. Apparently in 2008, there was a mega pride spotted at Savuti Safari Lodge with 40+ cats. When the 5 Selindas took over and ousted the 4 Mababe males, supposedly killing atleast one, the pride split with some staying north and creating the Northern Pride, and the rest staying south officially forming Marsh Pride. The territory they both now occupy use to be the whole territory of that mega pride, stretching up to southern boundary of Linyanti. Source will be linked below.
https://desertdelta.com/the-northern-pride-of-savute/

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I cannot even begin to imagine a single pride, existing of over 40 members. It would be near impossible for them to act as a single unit, and even a full grown bull buffalo couldn't feed everyone. Reply