The Tumbela Coalition

[RookiePundit]

I am bit late, but as for actual paternity, withou genetic testing, we can only tell Red Road is not Sizanani's, simply because at the time he was conceived Skorro and Sizanani were yet to meet and join up as a coalition. Beyond that we cna only make educated guesses based on appearance and dominance and presence of respective males around cubs' mother in the relveant time - all coalition males likely get a chance to mate (it is rational for females to give all males a sliver of hope, the cubs might be his, as long as they believer he is gonna be around and on his last breath). And then there is the health issues theory some here on this forum speculate meight be a genetic predisposition and be related to which one of the two was actual father of the impacted individual - which to me it is bit stretch, sadly multiple males born into the Nharu pride eventually succumbed to poor health and clearly some condition have severly hindered them for a while.

We don't even know if Skorro Jr. is Skorro's son. He looks alike though. As for Tumbela Jr. (aka the lone Othawa pride male cub) I guess we kind of want him to be, especially as he is showing some character and fearless behaviour (need to be toned down, running into hyenas alone is a recept for disaster) resembling his grandfather Skorro. His supposed dad, Skoro Jr. was the most healthy and really the only healthy male of the coalition when Tumbelas took over Othawa and it is not a big jump to assume he had priority acces to Othawas and did more mating than his brothers, boosting the odds the cubs are actually sired by him, although there is never a guarantee without DNA testing. As for him being son of Skorro, I take it as a simlification, there is some resemblance, mroe so to me he on the newest pics from Manyeleti looks a lot like Red Road (similar stare, a bit) who would be his paternal half-brother. So for me it is an ok working hypotheis, which should not be presented as fact but for siplmification, I don't see a reason to include a disclaimer every time that we don't know for sure. Often personal opinion of the poster might get in the way (more elsewhere than here) and people believe what they want to believe - reminds me the situation of people speculating who was father of the impressive Othawa male (for the sake of clarity the one often reffered to as Nguvu), some saw Scar Nose Majingilane in him and some saw Hip Scar. At least with 2 male coliation like was the Thanda Impis, only two options are possible so we are more likely to correct than not even if go just be very subjective thing like appearance. 

Regardless, seem like common practice males being called father and son when what is really meant is the latter is father by the coalition the former is/was part of like recently in multiple sightings Nhenha and Nkuhuma are reffered to as father and son sometimes, when they probably are not and Nkuhuma is likely his nephew (not that Nhenha knows or cares at this point). I guess the distinction between actual father and fathering coalition is gonna be impractical and one gonna get confused for the other, for sure outside of this forum. Reply