The Mighty Mapogos

[Leo Aslan]

5 Mapogos vs. Scar & Tyson Split Rock (2005)
...Young Mapogos in a battle about food against the dominant males, Tyson and Scar known as the Split Rock males. 5 young Mapogos on a Buffalo kill....suddenly the dominant Tyson and Scar came! 

Split Rock male Lions would chase the Mapogo around when they were still with the Sparta pride. They almost caught the young Mapogo on several occasions . That is in the documentary of the Split Rock Lions (Tyson the supreme Fighter) and it´s in the Mapogo documentary (Brothers in Blood  - The Lions of Sabi Sand), when they show a lion chasing another one off his pride´s food that the Mapogo were stealing. It´s the scene where it says that the Mapogos had some close calls with local dominant males and it shows one of the Split Rocks chasing Kinky Tail or Mr T away. The Split Rock lions are the only coalition of lions ever that can say they beat them. The Mapogos would run from them many times when they were young as the Split Rock lions were dominant males in the area and they were stronger than the Mapogos. Their territory bordered the Sparta pride´s territory . When the last West street male died, the Split Rock lions took over half of the Sparta pride (proving the invaluable protection the West Street males gave the Sparta pride, even though they were said to be decrepit and 14 yrs old). The young Mapogos could not stop the Split Rock lions from partially taking over the Sparta pride. But the Split Rocks could not completly take it over from the Mapogos because some lionesses did not accept the Split Rocks. Three months after the Mapogos left the Sparta pride and started their great adventure to the top of the lion world, the Split Rocks were finally going to take over the Sparta Pride. Suddenly tragedy strikes: Tyson had been suffering from Tb (Tuberculosis) for a long time and it finally caught up to him and killed him . Now only one older Split Rock was left, Scar and he got kicked out of the area by the 2 Rollercoaster male lions. The Rollercoasters would be the ones to take over the Sparta pride. These Split Rocks were very capable and impressive lions . They are the Fathers of Solo, the Tsalala young male. Incidentally a month or two after the Mapogos left the Sparta pride 4 of the adult lionesses died (they were about 13 yrs old) These were the mothers and aunts of Mapogo who became sad when they left.  They died of a broken heart...

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