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12-08-2015, 12:32 AM( This post was last modified: 12-29-2015, 01:05 PM by LionKiss )
(07-03-2015, 07:54 PM)vizions Wrote: I want to talk about the Mapogo's descendants for this post. In terms of numbers, there's a not a lot of them: there's the 3 Ottawa females, the 4 Mangheni females, and possibly the 2 Ottawa males who went into the KNP in 2012. For such a strong coalition, those numbers aren't impressive.
But then, we have to talk about the "dark" side of thoses numbers: the impact of humans.
Not a lof of people know this but the Mapogos had 5 sons in the Sand River Pride in 2009, who were around 2 years old~. Early 2009, the fences of the western sector were washed away by heavy rains and the Sand river pride (2 females adults and the 5 subadults males) broke out of the Sabi Sands reserve. The authorities decided to shot down the entire pride, and the entire pride was wiped out (one male got away but didn't survive alone). Can't imagine how awesome if those 5 had make it to maturity....
Credits to Drew Abrahamson for this sad picture...
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For the Ximhungwe pride, there was a lot of misfortune due to humans also. 4 subadults ate a rabid dog and had to be put down by the authorities. One Xim lionness was killed by a snare; her 2 sons weren't accepted by the others lionness and died as a result.
Dreadlocks was a casualty of poaching also. There could be also others things that never became public and we'll never know about it.
I'm not trying to blame the Sabi Sands reserve who are doing their best to protect their wildlife, they are not the one to blame for this record.
big hypocrisy by the authorities there,
the rule is: "NO HUMAN INTERVENTION", nonsense!!
in this case the rain was just an excuse to kill the entire Mopogo Bloodline, especially the males.
I am new here, just got registered with the interest to find out more about the Mpogos, were they so strong that even humans wanted to get rid of them?
Very naive approach, we humans are thrilled by stories like those of Mapogos, and they are one reason I want to visit those parks sometime in the future,
I want to see the Lions in their natural place and grow with no human intervention otherwise I visit the zoo.