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From Mara Lion Project

The Mara Lion Project and Kenya Wildlife Service have recently conducted a 9 day collaring exercise. We are targeting sub-adult males as we want to investigate where these males disperse to when they leave their respective prides. We currently have very many sub males leaving their pride and then disappearing. Concurrently, we are seeing pride male coalitions having pride tenure for 4+ years which can lead to inbreeding. This tells us that dispersing young males might venture outside the protected areas where there is a high density of livestock, killing them which might result in retaliation attacks. This would mean that the male lions are killed before they are strong enough to come back to the protected areas and take over prides. This is very important to document for conservation purposes. With GPS collars, it is also possible to document human-lion conflicts. 

As you can see from the post-collaring photo, you can barely see the collar on the lion. We have also attached a leaflet explaining everything about the collars and the importance of them.

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