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(06-17-2020, 10:37 AM)Slayerd Wrote: No 2-3 year old will stand up to a dominant male. Lions don't just avoid fights because of numbers but because a dominant male can easily tear through a young lions neck or spine. An older male has alot of power and size. If Nhenha catches one of the two, he can seriously injure them. Tinyo in fact tore through one of their paws so that young male is limping.
Also I disagree that the Tsalala is in a bad spot. Her territory is extremely flexible and surrounded by rivers. Nhenha even crosses the river when he goes to see her. Her only threat is the Kambula rn.
In 1vs1 it is fatal injures are very unlikely. Also in such fight it is nearly impossible to get grip on the spine of oponent. Moreover if young male has a backup of his brother then older male very well might be screved. At the age of 3 males have most of their growing behind them and at such point they very well can match adults. Of course at that point they are on avarage yet not as strong as avarage adult, but talking about adult easy killing or killing at all youngster is very exaggerated I would say. Ealier in the discusion there was an ask for official reports of 3 years old beating adult. Perhaps now we should present oficial reports of adult males killling 3 years old males in one on one combat. Problem is that I do not think any such exists.