Lions of Sabi Sands

[criollo2mil]

(05-17-2023, 10:12 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: @criollo2mil well, i dont have any insight on this so i cant confirm or deny, although im sceptical in your story.

5 Tumbelas where seen in northern Sabi Sands towards late 2019, after that they where seen east in Mluwati Concession, all 5, hanging for few weeks/months.

After that, Limper and Scar emerged in central Manyeleti in early 2020 , both of them already look severly malnurished and not in great condition, getting bullied by young Mbiris.

They showcase illness before they emerged in Sabi Sands as 3.

Also, if you see some photos of sub Scar, you would notice that he already is skinny in his youth.

Their brother Lambile, also has similar disease.

I mean young lions get ill all the time, look 7th Birmigham Breakaway boy, or current youngest Nkuhlu male.

If they eated infected carcass as subs, all would get infected, but lions with better imune system  and stronger genetics will not showcase it as soon as others.

I do recall old posts from a photographer that used to do a wonderful job documenting the Mbiri and Nharus during that period (his name escapes me because he stopped posting a few years ago) and I do recall a period where the nharus were suffering through a bad bad patch and several loosed malnourished. The specifics are buddy to me because that was a period I wasn’t around following lions and found it in researching Reply