The Mighty Mapogos

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This is from Londolozi blog discussion thread in which some people gave comments and told, that Rasta would have been killed by Majingilanes. Here is what Adam Bannister wrote in discussion thread:

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Okay, well firstly thank you so much to everyone for responding. This post has been up for about 20 hours and has had already had a huge response. I have collated information from blog, facebook and emails and have established that another 5 lions need to be added to the list as seen above in the text…
So this is the list as it stands so far (please feel free to keep adding, subtracting or questioning this as this is the only way we will get a clear idea of the impact they have had.)
2 Mapogo Males
4 Tsalala Youngsters
1 Sparta Female
1 Sparta sub-adult Male
3 Breakaway Sparta Youngsters
1 Southern Pride/Selati Male
1 Male from the 2 + 1 Pride
1 Styx adult Female
2 Styx sub-adult Females
= 16 lions
Can anyone give clarity about whether they have had any impact on the Toulon Males. In terms of the Golf Course Male, we basically watched him deteriorate and die. The Majingilane may have influenced his death but I don’t think his death came as a result of a Majingi tooth or claw


So also Bannister keeps it probable, that Rasta was killed in fight with Majingilanes here. I have no idea if he has changed his mind after this. If someone has doubts, read this:

https://blog.londolozi.com/2011/06/30/majingilane-coalition-one-year-down-the-lion/


Now then what comes to discussion overall. This thread is about Mapogos. With Rasta, situation is that he disappeared and there isn´t 100% certainty about his destiny. So people speculate. When we look at male lions in their prime, there aren´t too many reasons why a prime male lion just vanish.


1. People, someone shot a lion etc.
2. Other lion or lions, many males die in fights with rival lions/coalitions. Maybe most probable reason to assume, when some animal disappears like Rasta did.
3. Some unlucky incident with some big herbivore, elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, giraffe etc. 
4. Confrontation with some other predator. Big crocodile in deep water (in areas where rivers with crocodiles) might be one even though I´ve never heard about such case, actually surprising a bit. Big clan of hyenas, even though very unlikely scenario when talking about healthy adult male lion. If a prime male lion dies in fight with another predator, there simply is almost only one real possibility, another lion (In Africa at least).

So how did Rasta die.... everyone can think which one above is most probable. I assume personally, that he met another male lion/lions. Speculation, but in this thread some speculation has to be allowed, when it´s with reasoning. We can´t deny civilized discussion from people, who are interested about these lions and like to change thoughts. There is no need to be emotional really. One can keep one theory more probable, someone else thinks that some other theory is closer to the truth. In situation like this different people can say what they assume that happened and why, then people who read can decide themselves what they keep as the most probable. Reply