Lions of Timbavati

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The Sumatra male is partners with the Hercules male below. Credit: image Johan Smalman at Shindzela, posted August 14, 2018.

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The Mapoza male travels solo and is a tough boy as evidenced by his ongoing existence in an area with a lot of big dominant males. He is lucky that most of the coalitions are just two males (including Junior Nkuhuma/Matimba and Buddy, the two Mbiris, the two Ross males and the two Sumatra/Hercules males), as well as quite a number of single males such as the Black Dam male and the youngest Giraffe male. Recently the Mapoza male spent time in the vicinity of the Black Dam pride in southern Thornybush before the Giraffe male scared him off. Lately he has been hanging around the Avoca pride in Shindzela Tented Camp, part of the Timbavati Game Reserve. Credit: image by Johan Smalman at Shindzela, posted September 11, 2018.

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The irony of the Mapoza male hanging out with the Avoca girls can be summed up in the two pics below. The first is the Mapoza, the second an Avoca lioness.
Credit: images by Johan Smalman at Shindzela, posted September 23, 2018.

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Shindzela has a lot of lions passing thru including Junior Nkuhuma/Matimba. Credit: image Johan Smalman at Shindzela, posted July 2, 2018.

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And the Ross males Tyson and Fabio (pictured below with a Birmingham female). Credit: image Johan Smalman at Shindzela, posted September 5, 2018.

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