Lions of Timbavati

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(03-08-2021, 12:35 AM)kobe8jf1234 Wrote: do subs form the breakaway and the birmingham pride subs come into contact they were father by different males right ?or they have any interaction with each other meaning do they know each other or they are enemies ?

Who knows? Animals don't act like they are rules and we get odd behaviour from time to time. It would be important in what compositions and numbers the two groups would meet, but I don't expect it being cordial. If one individual get lost and tries to joind the other group they might eventually succeed but them being related would not be much of a factor in most cases, i.e. unrelated individual can possibly manage to do that by being persistent at the right time. However I don't think they feel much of a need to join forces and form even bigger coalition or something like that. I would not expect some kind of merge, lone individuals might get adopted into another group at their own risk. They probably won't tolerate each other at carcasses even. We can never say something can never happen, but there are behavioural responses that are reasonable to expect. As for relation, those animals would likely meet outside of pride controlled by Ross Males and without their presence, so I don't think it would matter. Whether they can get the idea they are related from scent or something I have no idea, at one side Tsalala lioness was killed by her Mhangeni granddaughters which she actually brought up before on the other one female sub-adult of the 10 Mhangeni sub-adults who perished, managed to joined Ximhungwe pride (Mhangeni is Tsalala breakway pride, Tsalala is Ximhungwe breakaway pride), so who knows what they can recognize and hw much they act upon it. Reply