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(08-21-2021, 08:21 PM)Mistry109 Wrote: I would say he is a solid coalition partner. He has just had some really bad luck. He has only ever had 2 partners so nobody can make such rash judgments about him. It is unfair and very incorrect...
- Big Boy died from natural causes.
- Styx Male died from a nasty wound inflicted most likely by Mangheni females.
If anything, this only highlights how tough it is to be a nomadic male. Nothing to do with him whatsoever.
Right now, he has to be one of my favorite male lions. That boy has gone through so much.
Anybody know who he was seen with recently?
That photo posted here with him carrying the kill suggests he hadn't had the wound year when the kill was already claimed and Mhangenis likely gone for good, so that would narrow it down to hyenas and Nkuhuma. Then again we don't know if it was a hyena bite how it happened, whether a bold hyena took a chance when Styx turned his back towards it or if he got somewhat outnumbered, it could be a freak incident nothing could prevent or maybe the two males didn't cover for each other as they ultimately should.