The Birmingham Males

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The Avocas appear to be judicious (or at least energy saving) in their approach to killing existing cubs from prides they are trying to mate with, at least this is what has occurred with the Nkuhumas where they have not killed any of the subadults including the young Mangheni and Talamati males who have been hanging out with them, and only shown aggression when females are in oestrus, such as the recent case of the young Talamati male who was trying to mount one of the Nkuhumas (assumed to be in oestrus) with subsequent reports that he was chased off. As far as the Talamati pride goes, it was reported by Arathusa that the sub adult males were chased off when the Avocas approached the pride, but clearly they weren't killed.

In the meantime, they can't expand too far with this guy and his two (probably not three) bros around. Image by Nic Nel, November 23, 2018

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