Lions of Sabi Sands

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(05-11-2021, 11:44 PM)Slayerd Wrote: I've seen a lot of people think that the Kambula Pride as a whole took out the Othawa Male but this is very unlikely. Looking at the behaviour of Lionesses, they don't participate in the mailing of other male lions. When faced by Male lions, Lionesses will either try to push them away by actively attacking them or distract them by flirting but to actually maul and kill a lion is very rare and not a real option. Whilst a pride might be able to injure a male which later can lead to his death, they don't maul and kill male lions. People like to paint the Kambula as killing machine and aggressive Lionesses that will kill anything but whilst they may be aggressive against other prides, they have never killed male lions. People assume they injured Nsuku but they didn't actually kill him. In fact the Birmingham Males themselves wiped out all the Kambula cubs in 2018 and nothing happened to them. Nhenha saved the Mangheni lioness and Tinyo and him saved the Tsalala lioness. The most likely scenario is the Birmingham Boys were the ones involved in the killing

Lionesses will not "maul" male lion (atleast i didn't see it) because they are too affraid and too weak for that, but they might help their pride males to corner an inturding male, and then males take over and maul the male, especially if those lionesses have cubs, reports where saying OM head straight into the area where Kambulas have hidden cubs, so females definitely will act protective.. 

I've read that some think that even subadults participate, which is absurd, they would run of immidiately if they see or hear serious males fighting.. 

But as somebody here pointed out, it doesnt have to be that they killed OM on the spot or break his back (which is not that easy in 2 vs 1 situation, as male will most likely be lying on his back defending himself), they might just maul his legs and left him, he might even walk away, depending of injuies, but eventually he died of blood loss.. 

A lot of killing in the recent months, Addo boy in Madikwe, Monwana male, Mbilu and now OM.. the ugly side of these magnificent animals.. Reply