Lions of Sabi Sands

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(05-17-2022, 12:16 AM)Potato Wrote:

(05-16-2022, 11:32 PM)sik94 Wrote: she's a nomad without an established pride at this point. The Ximungwe pride is an already established pride, the Ximungwe female will be the one accepting a nomadic lioness

Pride is a group of individuals, so she is not even a pride anymore. She is same as Othawa breakaway just lone lionesses wandering around. Also that she is in the same arena since her daughter dissapeared (which is not too long anyway) doesn't mean she is territorial.

Also again, both females are independent, there was no any tensions between them so it is not like Othawa female tryed to join Ximunghwe famale and Ximunghwe end up tolerating Othawa female, but clearly they are joining up because they both wants that.

Alright. If pride is down to last female, who moves around alone, it is usual to call ther say Tsalala female, but Tsalala pride is still valid, it does not matter it is a pride of one, imho. Let's look at Southern pride - by your POV she should called Southern female, but she has two female offspring growing up nicely, that are likely to stay with her if nothing happens to them and then what you woud want to call that trio (+ any subsequent cubs in that pride)? It would be a Southern pridem anythign else would be a nonsense. Pride is name is still carried by the last individual, as long as it is a female. It is effectively an individual and the lifestyle a behaviour is somewhat more similar to a leopard's female one than a pride of lion's one but still.

I could even see Ximhungwe name lasting even without genetic link to the last female - say Gingerella joins her, Ximhungwe has cubs, Gingerella eventually has its progeny as well and somewhere along the journey, Ximhungwe and he progeny is outlived by Gingerella and her progeny functioning as a rather small but successful pride. I can see the Ximhungwe names sticking to them as they lived together with the Ximhungwe progeny as one tribe for year possibly in that scenario. However, it seems premature, till we see the two lioness together taking care of cubs of one of them, nothing is certain and even then there might some twists. Not long ago we had 2 Tsalalas and 2 Ximhugnwes and quite quickly those went down to 2 total. The Ximhungwe-Gingerella union might not happen also for simply not both being around/alive. Reply