The Matimba coalition

[Tshokwane]

(05-07-2018, 10:24 PM)Chris Wrote: What do you mean they don’t have time to secure a pride, their mating with one of the Ottawa females and roaring and scent marking the territory, so realistically they have a territory and pride, give it some time and you will bothe mating with the whole pride and also in the future cubs.

Swtlei4u is right. That isn't what it's really about, Chris. 

It's what the last paragraph of the article is about. If they can't hold on to it, then it means nothing, biologically speaking. 

Why are we making this assumptions if, like you say, "realistically they have a territory and pride"?

Well, because we've seen them before giving up on their territory, prides and cubs when the first serious challenge shows up.

Go back to 2016, and to last year. They were in Londolozi, and from time to time the Majingilane entered it, and there was some back and forth between them, but nothing happened, and the Matimbas didn't seem too bothered by it. Why? Because they knew the Majingilane weren't after the land. Sure, a couple of times the Majingilane tried to kill them, but in general they didn't care.

Now, what happened when the Matshapiri males, who were only two and not as big or experienced as the Matimbas, presented them a proper, territory taking challenge?...

The Matimba males fled.

So now, a year later, with age weighing them down, and with a less than ideal physical condition, how much do you think it's going to take from rivals to, again, chase them off?

While I do like them, and that they've come back, I still have to be realistic about it. Reply