The Mighty Mapogos

[Tshokwane]

(09-09-2017, 03:30 AM)Chris Wrote: How is it possible that the mapogos have no sons in 6 years of reign? I find that hard to believe

As it was said, two subadults of the Othawa pride left the Sabi sands and went into the Kruger. No one knows what became of them, so there's no point in guessing.

As for the rest, some were killed as a consequence of the rabids incident, some were killed by Mr.T, others killed by the other males in displays of dominance (this was common in their first years of dominance), others were killed by the Majingilane males when they tookover, the same when the Selati males came.

As for the subadults of the Sand river pride, what House of lions leaves out, conveniently, is why they were killed. They were hunting and killing livestock in the lands of people. When the park authorities tried to push them back into the reserve, the Mapogo males chased them back out.

So, the park had little choice on the matter. If they didn't shot them, risking the lions to keep getting deeper into the people's land, and kept pushing them back in the reserve, the Mapogo themselves would have killed them. 

Now, personally, I think this would have been a better outcome simply because it would have been more "natural", but it's how it is.

At the end of the day, there's no way to deny their inability to raise their offspring to adulthood until their latter years when only three remained, where the Mangheni and Othawa girls remained, while the Ximhungwe cubs were killed by T. Reply