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The skybed, orpen and caroline prides, are they all the same or different prides? Or are some of them breakways of the others? And which one became the Birmingham Pride?
The Caroline is a breakaway of the Skybed pride. There were 6 females in 2011. There was a split and the other part of this pride are in fact the 3 lionesses which given birth to the Skybeds males.
Over the years, a lot of prides were known as the Orpen pride by the simply fact of spend time in that area. For example, the Birmingham pride is known as the Orpen pride by some guys. Skorro pride was referred as the Orpen pride by Tintswalo rangers and the Kingfisherspruit pride was known as Orpen pride back in the 90's consisted of more than 30 lions and they hardly ever crossed into Timbavati. From 1994 to 1998 there was a pride of 23 lions around the Ngala traverse and the Birmingham around Wildlife college to the west. So, mostly of these current prides should be related each-other in the past