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02-07-2018, 08:56 AM( This post was last modified: 02-08-2018, 03:25 AM by Michael )
(02-07-2018, 02:14 AM)vinodkumarn Wrote: MALAMALA TODAY: February 5th&6th. 13 lions: The Kambula pride continue to do things that leave us scratching our heads... Yesterday all 6 lionesses and a single Gowrie male were found with their 2nd buffalo kill in as many days. 4 cubs from 2 different litters were also present and playfully interacted before something shocking occurred... Without warning, the mother of the slightly younger cubs killed both of the older cubs. A number of theories have been generated as to why but we’ll never really know. 4 of the lionesses were in the Sand River at West Street Bridge today while the lioness with 2 cubs and the Gowrie male were at Maxim’s Lookout. We viewed the 2 Avoca males on both days. They killed a giraffe in southwestern Charleston.
Photo of one of the younger cubs of the Kambula pride by ranger Liam Henderson
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Very interesting behavior specially coming from a female, how likelly is it that she realised the cubs of the other lioness were from a different male than hers and she decided to kill them ?
Or maybe it simple was because it was the first time that particular lioness interacted with those cubs, interesting nonetheless