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No this is definitely a condition that’s been affecting a large number of Kruger males. If you look at Shizanani, Nsuku, the Sumatra male, Monawana male… they all get this black mark on that hip bone. And then overtime that leg just completely deteriorates. They start to limp and can’t walk on that leg. Not everyone experiences it as bad… some still hang in there for a while.
“Healthy” Shizanani
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Healthy Nsuku
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A year later…
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Sometimes even the flesh gets exposed like an open wound. People always call everything TB or a Buffalo hunting accident but I think this is something really unique and you only see it in male lions and it really starts to kick in around 7-8 years old or slight later.