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So i was browsing thru this tread and i notice that there isnt any post of the Styx males sightings from few months ago in Kruger,maybe there is in another thread idk.
Regardless, 1 or both (second one wasnt confirmed) Styx males where seen around s26 road in S. Kruger as a coalition of 4.
This is their early photo still in SS, left one was called Long Mane and right one Big Boy, they dissapeared into Kruger in 2016,only to be seen once later on around Jock area,and nothing from them since until now.
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Long Mane was confirmed to be the one with injured jaw:
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Big Boy was not confirmed, he is harder to indetify, but 1 male is very similar to him, and i belive that thats him.
One of the last images of Big Boy in SS:
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This similar male (first one in the middle) :
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I think similarity is too big to not to be him, and what are the chances that his brother finds another partner that similar to him?
Other two males with them:
Male #1
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Male #2
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Those two males look a bit younger then them, maybe 1-2 yrs younger.
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After this sighting, people in that area confirmed that this lions where seen around there for quite some time, since 2017, and that Long mane has that injury for quite some time now.