The Mighty Mapogos

[Gabriele]

Makulu of the Mapogo in love.
Makulu and a lioness from the Ximhungwe lion pride. Filmed only a couple of days before the Selati Lion Coalition took over the territory. I am not aware of any other times after this once the last two Mapogo became nomadic that they were witnessed courting any females succesfully.
Filmed in 2012, this footage has only been seen as short clips of the sighting not the entire scene shown here.
Makulu was still a huge beast and confirms himself as a 'ladies man' as you can see, despite being 13 and a half years old. We must not, however, think that 15 years is too old an age, like 70 human years or more. In human years 15 years of a lion correspond to just over 50 years, so a man still strong, but clearly not comparable to a young man of 25 or a man in full physical and mental vigor of 35-40.

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