Lions of Sabi Sands

[vinodkumarn]

(02-16-2018, 07:22 PM)Michael Wrote:

(02-16-2018, 10:21 AM)vinodkumarn Wrote: MALAMALA TODAY: February 14th&15th. The elephant carcass along the Mlowathi River has been one of the main talking points over the last 2 days. Yesterday, a Gowrie male and 7 lionesses were found in front of Main Camp before making their way to the carcass. 6 are Kambula lionesses but we are unsure of who the 7th lioness is- the Kambula pride were mildly aggressive towards her. Later in the day the number of lions at the carcass grew to 11- one of the lionesses brought her 2 cubs to the bounty and an unidentified young male lion also arrived on the scene late in the evening. He keeps his distance when the Gowrie male is around but when the dominant male wonders off to drink the youngster makes his move. Again, the lionesses are only mildly aggressive towards him. 2 lionesses from the Styx pride were viewed near Mlowathi Dam and the 2 Avoca males were in the south. 

Any idea who is the female Lioness and Young male.. (May be Tsalala sub-adult male , son of tailed female and Tsalala young female?? or Fourways )

From the Londolozi blog it seems there is only one Tsalala cub left and it's a young male so it might be his mother and him, but no idea why would the male and females tolerate their presence, it must be something in the water every weird lion behavior happens on Malamala.

Unless one of the lionesses had a cub before the others and the guides never noticed her lactating or her absence, both scenarios seem not very likely.

May be Kambulas are passive as they have tiny cubs with them now.
I beleive Tsalala young female (6 year old) was disappeared a while ago. Regarding male, it may be highly likely. (He should be 2 to 2.5 year old) Reply