Lions of Sabi Sands

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Nose pigmentation is the best way to determine lions age, althrough it can vary to some degree depended of individual,some may have darker earlier then others, but its roughly very similar..

So lets see with few examples of males with recent pictures, first 4 yrs old males :

(Styx, Nkuhuma,Torchwood males) 

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Nose very pink, with very few black dots.. 

5 yrs old (estimated age of Nwaswitshakas) :

(Dominant, Belly Scar, Orange Eyes) 

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More pigmentation then 4 yrs old males, Wide Nosed male has the most black nose of the 4,so he is prob the oldest of them..

Around 6 yrs old males :

(Othawa male, RRM) 

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Much more black pigment.. 

7 yrs old is even more darker:

(Mohawk, Blondie, DM) 

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8 yrs is pretty much similar as 7, but after that nose is pretty much all black:

(Nhenha and Tinyo at 10 yrs of age)

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I think this is very informative so i made this, but lets now see the nose of that 1 Kruger male :

1 year ago, picture taken in mid 2019:

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He has nose similar to Nwaswitshakas, i would say around 5 yrs old there.. Also his mane look very young, similar to Othawa male mane before and Nwaswitshakas manes now.. 

Recent :

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Now, everybody has their opinions, but i think based of this, that this male is 6-6.5 yrs old now.. 

His partner looks to be older, prob 7-7.5 yrs old (much darker nose and mane).. 

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