The Mighty Mapogos

[KM600]

(12-09-2023, 01:21 PM)Lipstick2 Wrote:

(12-09-2023, 08:09 AM)Ngonya Wrote: Not only this Majingi's son but also the Long mane Styx

Indeed, the later S26 males.

(12-09-2023, 08:09 AM)Ngonya Wrote: The only BBoy with a more impressive mane than Makhulu, or even Dreadlock/Scar and their Rolleroaster half brothers is Nsuku, who wasn't a big lion, probably smaller than all of the Mapogo/Rollercoaster imo.

According to rangers and any other observers from the time (in mid 2010s) all of the Birmingham Boys were bigger than any other male lions in SS up to that point - except the Matimbas naturally (and remember this was before the Mantimahles' coming). Even Nsuku who was the smallest among the 5 Birminghams. At this point no mention about the the Rollercoaster males as they were already nowhere when the BB's has appeared, but indeed they always seemed to me a bit larger males compared to any other of the WSM's descendants, definitely they could be slightly bigger than their Mapogo half-brothers (but couldn't be bigger than BB's either) i think.

But this topic comes up again and again on this forum and i don't want to get into it...i'm just saying what i've heard/read from reliable sources (rangers) at the time, that's all. And at this point i would like to close this "size debate" for my part.

Back to the mane topic, Mfumo and Nhenha also had impressive manes in their peak times. Sadly Mfumo has disappeared right at the time in his prime so we didn't get to see him to grow an old male lion, but imo he was the most impressive among the boys until then.

Btw at this point you've just inserted such a picture on which Dreadlock's mane is very short and so small... And even both of the Rollercoasters have quite bigger manes than even Makhulu has. So these pictures definitely don't support your argument. :)
And look on Nsuku, his mane is much longer than any other male's in these pictures (being Mapogos, Majingis, Selatis or anyone else).

(12-09-2023, 08:09 AM)Ngonya Wrote: we are talking about manes right?

Yeah, KM600 was impressed by Makhulu's mane size (length), coverage and also by his darkness, so this is why we're talking only about their manes and not about body sizes. And he compared him to the Crater males' manes. At this point, i would have liked to refutes him in it, as Makhulu didn't have the most impressive mane by far. And especially he cannot be compared with the Crater males.

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Here is a current off Crater (Lake Quintet) male by Charnita Kirby, do you see the features of Makhulu in him? I don't at all.

When I said that I was more talking about the darkness, everyone knows u can’t really compare length of manes from the crater lions to those of Sabi Sand. He did have a quite a thick mane on his back but obviously nowhere near the level of Crater males, I prolly should have cleared that up. Reply