Other male lion coalitions from Masai Mara

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(10-29-2020, 07:59 PM)Cath2020 Wrote:

(10-29-2020, 06:46 PM)BA0701 Wrote:

(10-29-2020, 06:26 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:

(10-29-2020, 01:12 PM)Mohawk4 Wrote: Sala males(Orkitok & Osapuk-Olepolos wasnt with them) vs Lolparpit
Video from last year

Those Sala Boys are true warriors , which prides they control atm?

Agreed, Lolparpit survived his encounter, his son, Baba-Yao wasn't as lucky. The Baba-Yao fight was particularly hard to watch. He did not die on the spot, but apparently had his leg broken in the fight, and a few days later he disappeared and was not seen again, so the speculation is that he died as a result of his wounds.

Isn't this the lion that killed a young male with a bite to the spine, paralyzing him?  So, it seems he got caught as well and other lions killed him, too.  It appears that the most aggressive lions eventually also get the most violent endings....sooner or later.   Unfortunately, what happened to Baba Yao doesn't surprise me....  I was slightly taken aback that it happened so soon after he killed that young male in a pride take-over.    I couldn't watch the whole clip.   

Do you know how old that young male was?  I guess he was too young to run away and fend for himself.

I believe you are correct, that Baba-Yao paralyzed that young male, resulting in his being put to sleep, if I remember the story Rob the Ranger told about the incident. I am not aware of the exact age of that young male, but in the video of the attack he appears to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-2.5 years, but was def too young to srike out on his nomadic journey. That was another difficult to watch video, as that young male did absolutely nothing to provoke the attack, he even remained quite some distance away from the kill as Baba-Yao fed, lying down the entire time. Reply