Lions of Timbavati

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(11-06-2022, 01:06 AM)Duco Ndona Wrote: Probably the latter.  Animal behavioural studies are only just coming out of the dark ages and documentaries are sadly not the front runners of up-to-date science. We are only now discovering the rich social life of typically solitary animals like cheetah and tigers as well.

You may very well be right, and if so it raises the question as to why so many of the wildlife shows from those early days, the ones featuring lions, seemed to typically show single males controlling prides. For a large portion of my life, I had believed, thanks to these very shows, that male coalitions controlling prides were the exception to the rule, with there being many more single male dominated prides. However, as I began learning more about these creatures, we see today that it is quite the opposite, with single African male dominated prides for sure being much less predominant than coalition dominated prides. 

Of course there could be a lot of reasons for this, as you mentioned, it may have simply always been this way. Reply