Lions of Sabi Sands

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(09-09-2022, 04:39 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: They prob decide that only 2 females (of which only 1 was available for mating) are not worth fighting for and risk their lives, as new, better opportunities might arise somewhere else.

I do not think lions think like that. It rather was simple thinking - we can not compete with PC males so we just surrender. If they could take on PC males then they would remain in western sector. Also price was the same for both sides so for PC males it was worth fighting and for Nkuchuma/Birmingham it wasn't? It doesn't make any sense.

Regarding that naming pride by the oryginal name of just one of those (like naming Ximunghwe-Othawa breakaway) just Ximunghwe pride is dumb, missleading and dissrespectfull for the one of the duo. It would be different think if single individual joined to big pride, but in such duos (regardless if it is about unfamiliar famales or male coalitions). It is like calling Mongawane - Torchwood males, because it is obvious that since Torchwood male is older than it was Birmingham male who joined Torchwood male and not other way around (like one always have to join another, they couldn't just partner up), it would be very dump, but still it is an argument some use by saying it was Othawa female who joined to Ximunghwe pride (btw it isn't pride, it is lone lionesse, pride is a group of individuals) and so that group should be called Ximunghwe pride. The practice in such cases always was to give the group new name (of course particularly when 2 unrelated males were partnering up as it always was very rare to see 2 single lionesses partnering up for ) for example Thanda Impi males (insteed of naming them Skorro males or Nkuchuma males) or Orpen males. One single exeption would be naming Mhangeni-Tsalala duo just Tsalala pride as in fact both those fameles were born into Tsalala pride (same for example if Nkuchuma male - Birmingham son would join up with Avoca's sons from Nkuchuma pride, it would make sense to call them Nkuchuma males). I just can not get why some people feel need  to rewrite origins of of direct individual. Othawa female is an Othawa female and will remain to be who she will hang out with. Reply