Lions of Sabi Sands

[Duco Ndona]

(04-16-2023, 03:56 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: @Duco Ndona is he controling the pride or he just hangs with them? Thats 2 very different things.

This is not how it works, male who just hangs with the pride, without controling territory is not a territorial/dominant male.

DM hanged with Talamatis, Tumbela hangs with both Othawas and Ximhungwes, NK with Ximhungwes, but neither of those males where/are territorial.

To be a dominant/territorial male you need to have territory, not a pride, because without territory, you and your pride are in someones elses males territory.

And to have a territory, you need to roar, scent mark, face and chase intruders to keep them away, which Mohawk is not doing.

I dont really see the contradiction here. Males take territory depending on the opportunities to gain lionesses . If there is no lionesses there he will abandon the territory. 
Alternatively, even if he loses territory.  As long he can still hang out with his lionesses, he isn't going to move out just because he lost the land out of courtesy. 

As long Mohawk is dominant over the pride. He still has that, regardless of how much land he owns.

(04-16-2023, 06:59 PM)criollo2mil Wrote:

(04-16-2023, 06:15 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:

(04-16-2023, 05:43 PM)criollo2mil Wrote: As we suspected, Omega sort of confirms what we suspected about Gingerella’s cubs

But there was no evidence that she or Ximhungwe even have cubs, those where all speculations i think.

These same guides stated multiple times seeing them ´heavily pregnant´   

So not sure if it was speculation.  Both lionesses are under stress.   The PCMs, Tumbela and Nkuhuma all hanging around week to week a different male.   It’s untenable situation to rear cubs

If even Zoos are not willing to 100% guarantee whether or not the big cats in their care are pregnant without blood testing. its safe to say that even the guides have no accurate way of seeing whether or not a lion is pregnant or not at all.

The only real evidence would have been the sighting of cubs. 
But sadly in the Ximhungwes case even if cubs were to exist, their chance of survival are low enough for them to simply have died before being seen. 

The cubs may have existed or not. We will likely never know. Reply