N'waswitshaka males

[Wyld@Heart]

(02-09-2022, 11:29 PM)DARK MANE Wrote: Also am I the only one to whom the injury of gore is resembling more of a tumour type. Few months ago, it was only a little flesh that was hanging out. But it's getting bigger and biggerbigger. Really nothing can be done to confort him?

It doesn't appear to hinder him too much and his movements look natural. In the scheme of things, it is a natural incident that caused it and he's living with it just fine. If it were to cause his demise at some point then that is the way of the bush. Intervening in a natural process in a system where there is a stable and self sustaining lion population just means that at some point it might effect other species or lions that would not have been affected otherwise i.e. prey animals he might bring down, other predators and/or their offspring that he sees as competition such as leopard, cheetah, hyena, killing cubs in a takeover etc. All of the above might have life taken from them by making him completely healthy. Not that he might not do all of that anyway but the point is, everything is linked.

They might very well intervene for a cheetah or wild dog in that state, though, as they are highly endangered and the more healthy individuals there are of them, the better it is of the species as a whole. Gore doesn't fall into that particular category I'm afraid. Reply