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03-12-2022, 11:50 PM( This post was last modified: 03-13-2022, 12:00 AM by Duco Ndona )
Male lions may voluntary abandon their current pride if they feel there is a chance they can get a better life elsewhere, or when he no longer can tell potential mate from potential daughter.
He knows his time with the Talimati is coming to an end. Both by being pressured by other coalitions and just the passage of time.
So he is now seeking for a new home while he is still in good health and have a place to rest should things go sour.
He knows that he can probably return to his brothers if he is very submissive. He may get lucky and get some scraps and perhaps some very rare mating opportunities. But he is used to being the first in line. Not the third in line. So he probably is first going to check if there are some opportunities for a lone male elsewhere before stepping down like that.
He will probably join up again with the Talamati or his brothers again once nomadic life becomes to hard for him on his own.
Though he is a easy target for rivals should he run into them and there is a chance that both his brothers and his pride will no longer accept him if he comes back too weak. So it is a very huge gamble.
As for those spots. Perhaps they are wounds which later got licked clean? It doesn't look too bad so I don't think he has been in a serious fight. Perhaps just scratches from nasty fall during a hunt or something?