The Matimba coalition

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@Tr1x24 moving the discussion about the Matimbas from the Talamati thread to here, in the photo with Ndhuna and Slitnose the latter was fully grown already ( and remember lions reach their peak height quite young although they build more mass later on they barely get any taller after 4 ).

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HB might have been more impressive in frame, but Ginger was clearly taller:

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Slitnose and WF were exactly the same size as we see in their photos and videos side by side so they were dwarfed by Ndhuna in height, HB would probably get dwarfed too, I've no idea about Shaka, and as for Ginger and Ndhuna, the photo of them together is inconclusive:

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But I'd bet he's taller than Ginger too since the difference between him and Slitnose/WF is huge. It's also worth remembering that the other 5 are all Birminghams while Ndhuna's mother was unrelated so she might have had better genes for size, though this is just blind speculation. Reply