The Mighty Mapogos

[Mapokser]

(05-08-2022, 05:16 AM)Mabingilane Wrote: Dark mane majingilane faced two matimba males by himself until he was saved by his brothers. 

Not quite. It's way more likely he confronted HB alone and then was saved. While HB was found only 300m away from 2 Majingilane post-fight, Ginger was many kilometers away and had no fresh wounds. HB had scratches and so did the Majingilane, but with only DM having serious wounds, I remember he had a hole on his jaw or something. There's no way Ginger would leave that confrontation without a single scratch and then somehow walked multiple kms alone while HB for some reason stayed behind just 300 meters away from the enemies.

(05-08-2022, 05:16 AM)Mabingilane Wrote: One or two majingilane chased away three or four birmingham males.

Wasn't it 2 Majingilane chasing 2 BBoys? If there's another instance besides that one, I'd like to add it to the other Majingilane stuff I'm gonna read.

But for the Mapogos ganging on their enemies, yeah they did that which is a normal behavior from lions, but they also have chased many enemies in equal numbers or while outnumbered and more importantly they also engaged and won physical fights in such conditions, that's why people regard them as cool and more unique warriors. However, even then it doesn't free them from criticism, I've seen quite a bit of claims from either Mohawk or Mapogo haters that Mr.T was a coward because he didn't died with KT, and rather ran after trying to save his brother and giving up after starting to lose the fight, and that he was only aggressive towards cubs and females.

And just a comment out of curiosity about the last fact, it's interesting how the status of a dominant male with a full mane ( though Mr.T's was small ) and more confidence/aggressiveness plays a big factor in the lion dynamics. When Mr.T attacks one of the Majins who were killing Shaka, the ranger says that when it seemed Mr.T might kill the younger lion, one of his brothers joined him and Mr.T starts losing the fight, then he escapes them somehow and runs. It was obvious that even in a 2v1 the Majins had a huge advantage ( hell from just a size point of view, any of the Majins was very likely larger than the Mlowathi ), but they were quite afraid of them to the point all 4 ran when KT alone charged. Some also claim the other 4 were aware the 5th was getting killed but were afraid of helping, but I have no idea if this is true or not.

Generally dominant males will be able to chase multiple young nomads, but it's clear that if the young nomads were more confident, even just 2 would be enough to take on a dominant lion and probably win, even 2 aggressive lioness would give quite the trouble to a male, never mind young nomads, hell even subadults that are larger than lionesses would maybe be favorites against a single male if they were confident enough to gang up on him in a serious fight. Reply