Lions of Sabi Sands

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(03-01-2022, 07:07 PM)criollo2mil Wrote:

(03-01-2022, 06:56 PM)Tonpa Wrote:

(03-01-2022, 06:49 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:

(03-01-2022, 03:09 PM)Tonpa Wrote: Typically no lions in the Sabi Sands get official personal names except the Birmingham males who were named by WildEarth years ago. Apparently other folks in the Sabi Sands were unhappy about it so they never did it again. Most lions just receive descriptive monikers to aid in identification (blonde-mane, dark-mane, mohawk-mane, purple-eye, silver-eye etc)

Names like Nguvu, Ubosu, Amahle and now "Thor" and "Lightning" are just facebook names 

I've heard about about the one-eye and stompie thing but I'm not sure, the younger torchwood male seems too young to be their son. He looks around 8 whereas he should be 13-ish if he was their son

Who name them Thor and Lightning?

Some user on the lions of kruger national park FB group held a poll and "Thor" and "loki" were the top choices (100 people voted out of 50000 members).
I've only seen one person use those names though, and Loki became Lightning it seems lol

Yeah those are Fb names.  Same as Osindile for YBM.  not sure these will spread around (they don’t seem very popular even among the fb followers) like those of Osindile and Nguvu did. Those names have an African translation that’s sensible.   Not sure Thor and Lighting are seen the same way.  Hehehe 

While the reserves seldom name individual lions, they do routinely name coalitions.   So it does beg the question regarding the PCM, and Others.  I do suspect they will eventually get a coalition name (like Singita gave the Nwalungu)   

Similarly, I await a decision (probably late in the year) for an official name to the Nkuhuma Breakaways (Ridge Nose and Amber Eyes).

I guess in case of Nguvu and Osindile, those got adapted more beacause a) they had bit of an above average following due to their story and/or appearance b) there were other individuals growing up that would be Othawa (Young) Males or Brimingham Young Males respectively so often one just wrote Othawa Male (Nguvu) anyway normalizing the name further. Although the abbreviations like BYM seems to be a decent work around as well, if those lions gets reffered to just by them over time. Reply