The Mighty Mapogos

[Mapokser]

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I can't remember it here and I think I've read the entire thread by now...

Ranger Report, 5 Mapogos fatally injured one of their own Othawa cubs in the West, by Marius Coetzee and the Leopard Hills guides May 30, 2010:

The single new cub of the Ximungwe Pride of lions we reported on last month has unfortunately been killed by a spotted hyena. Other than the little set back the pride had a very good month and was seen frequently in the Southern part of our traversing area.


The coalition of Mapogo male lions once again spent the last month in our traversing area. At the end of the month we had a sighting of all 5 of the males together, this hasn‘t happened too often lately. The males were also seen feeding of a buffalo on the banks of the Sand River in the middle of the month. They managed to steal the carcass from the Ottawa pride of lions during the night and unfortunately in doing so injured one of the little cubs severely. A couple of days later the pride were seen once again and this time the cub wasn‘t present, we presume he must have died from his wounds.

https://www.leopardhills.com/blog/safari-lodge-general/rangers-report-may-2010/


Reports of the Mapogos never cease to amaze me ( for better or for worse ).

- 5 males together deep in the West at the end of may just days before Kinky Tail's death! It's crazy to think that either Mr.T or KT ( or maybe even both ) was with the others at that time, they could have easily retreated to the West and come back to fight with the upper hand in numbers, but I guess they weren't that smart and chose to engage 2v5. Even after KT's death, Mr.T thought it was a good idea to try to hold the territory alone. With the exception of Makhulu, the other Mapogos don't struck me as particulary smart, especially the 2 youngest of them.

- Mr.T killing the Ximhungwe's cubs aside, there was a claim that they killed Makhulu's Othawa cubs in 2007 but Rob Vamphew claimed the cubs were Nhlanguleni's, but here we have it, they killing their own cub...

- The split in the coalition, I think, it's greatly overestimated, although it's true they were working as different coalitions for around 2 years, it seems they never stopped visiting each other, be it in the east or west, so it doesn't surprise me Mr.T was easily accepted back. Reply