Lions of Sabi Sands

[Mapokser]

The current cuba are 100% sired by PCM who were the only ones to mate with the females for so long ( and every single day without a break ) that at some point it had been like 2 months since thet were last seen with Manghenis and may not even had been aware of their 9 cubs there.

Only chance Tumbela thinks the cubs are his is if he mated with the mothers briefly when he was with Nkuhuma, a false estrus or whatever, possibly, the fact he was with Ximhungwes recently and the cubs are still alive is good news that he might not try to kill them.

But ideally Ximhungwes would try to chase him off if he tries to do something.

@Duco Ndona  true with Othawa pride, but it's worth mentioning that the territory is big enough for both prides, back in the Selati times we had 4-5 Ximhungwe with the southern part of the Western Sector and 3 Othawas with the northern part. Some clashes happened which is normal but it worked out nicely.

Same can happen now if both prides have similar numbers, only thing to worry about would be the southern pride avoiding western Savannah which is Mangheni territory.

@BA0701 Yeah there's this possibility with the youngest Mapogos and videos claimed to be the females with Rollercoasters, though interesting Rob says it's hearsay and there was no report of the Rollercoaster mating with the Sparta pride.

It doesn't help that the last Rollercoaster is very similar looking to KT, though not as much as KT is to 1/5 WSM who is also, of course, very similar to the last Rollercoaster.

@KM600 Similar scenario also happened with NK pride. Mapogos harassed this pride all the way from december 2007 to mid 2009 when Gijimas finally took over there. Originally there were 10 females and 15 cubs by Dozie and Blondie, but at least half the cubs were killed and we don't know what came of the rest, but Mapogos mated with NK females from early 2008 all the way to early 2009, so at some point they might have attacked their own cubs. Reply