Shishangaan Male Lions

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Four Shishangaan male lions expanding their territory to take over the N’semani Lion Pride in the Kruger National Park South Africa.

The Shishangaan coalition consists of 4 male lions and one of them being the famous white lion Casper, who are the dominant males around Satara rest camp and are the pride males of the Satara lion pride. Last year they had shown interest in taking over the N’semani lion pride even seen mating on several occasions. They landed up settling with the Satara pride which resulted in the 2 Nkaya pan males taking over the N’semani pride from the old Mbiri and rockfig male. In the last couple months the Shishangaan males have started expanding their territory in the pursuit of taking over the N’semani lion pride and they have most frequently been seen around the dam mating and in the company of lionesses from the N’semani pride. The Shishangaan males are confident boys making them very vocal and can often be heard announcing their presence with loud roars around Satara rest camp.

In this video early morning we found them just east of N’semani in between the Dam and Satara they returned distant roars of neighbouring lions. They then got active during midday causing a massive traffic jam which they are famous for doing around Satara. The 4 male lions made there way towards N’semani dam. Before resting near road close to N’semani. 2 of Caspers brothers, Mfowethu and Casanova ended of the day with a magnificent roar making it loud and clear that they are here to take over.

In remains to be seen what the future will hold for  the Nkaya pan males who fathered cubs with females from the N’semani pride earlier this year.
We have seen Casper and his brother with at least 6 different lionesses from the N’semani pride.

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