Avoca male lions

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1. Monwana male actually linked up with Giraffe male many, many moths after healty Monwana male passed away. If he wouldn't be able to survive 2 weeks by himself he would be already gone by now. Same goes for DM Avoca.

2. Judging DM through prism of his small mane is much exaggeration. His body looks good, healty. In general it seems to be trade mark of Brutus Giraffe male lineage to have strong, healty body and at the same time small mane. Mohawk and Blondie Northern Avocas, smaller maned Southern Avoca, Birmingham male, Red Road male (through in the case of RR it is not confirmed who sired him and is up for speculations). DM Avoca and Brutus himself had nice manes at their peaks through both started loosing it rather early. Anyway looking at DM body shape I do not see reason why he couldn't be able to still compete with other male lions in the arena.

3. What it comes to DM's injury, there I also think its meaning is tend to exaggerate. We already seen DM be able to run at full spead if he wants to. In the fight with the adrenaline kicking it, the paw pain should be even a less of a issue. Sure with injury he won't be that strong as without it through persenting him as unable to fight seems very exaggerate to me. Moreover even after reciving his injury DM was still the most dominant of his coalition as long as they were coalition. We could also bring up other examples like WN Ndzenga, Nharhu male or Kruger male Limper who despite health issues were not only still able to compete with other males (including own coalition partners at mating rights), but in fact they were duing just as good as if they were fully healty.

4. What it comes to DM regaining dominant possition in some arena that in general depends what kind of coalition partners he would have to support. On his own he won't be able to do much. In general being a single male no matter how strong and healty some would be, he has little chances to succeed on the long run. On the other hand if DM would have some strong coalition partner(s) like for example his 2 sons he would still have good chances to regain dominant possition. Reply