There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
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but why the Mapogos chased them, were not they their "family", why did they want to attack them? it was their cubs, right?
When sub-adults are reaching adulthood, the males chase them. They percieve them as competitors now. They still recognize them as sons, I think, but in that stage it's very different.
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The area where they are chased out of, is there not another place they could of gone?
I just imagine africa as being extremely vast, hard for me to understand that there wasn't any where else for them to go?
I'm not quite sure about that. But from the little I've read about it, apparently, people live there, outside the borders of the reserve. Inb fact, maybe that is why there is need at all for a reserve. To the other side, the east, there is the Kruger National Park that is immense, but it's in a different country and boundaries must be respected by the people. And anyway, subadults thrown into that area would have probably been chased and killed by the dominant coalitions that would see them, again, as competitors.
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and the question is: What happened to his body? did someone bury him?
I think so, yes. I don't know who did it or where, but I read they buried him.