Lions of Timbavati

[Herekitty]

(01-31-2023, 02:09 PM)Lonbot2023 Wrote: Thank you for your reply. I thought being on the  boundary so closely there was a good chance they may have just disappeared into the distant bush. I guess now they would be in the region of 7.5 years old. Just found few pics of a couple of the boys. 

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Here’s also a male who was breeding away from the pride with one of the females. Unfortunately never got what he was known as (coalition name wise). He charged the other land rover shortly after we left, which we could see coming from the second pic (reason we left him to it). He may have been the Male that made the news after being lured off the reserve to be shot a few months after. 

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I'm sorry you didn't get a response. This is Skye the dominant Western pride male along with some of the young Western pride males from that time. Skye and his brother dominated the Western pride from late 2013 until Skye was hunted and killed in July 2018. His brother died the year before that in late 2017. They were originally known as the Mafikizolo males seen in northern Timbavati in 2011-13, they then took up with the Western pride firstly around Elephant Dridt Safari Lodge in Klaserie in late 2013 and then seen around Ingwelala, Motswari, Simbavati and King's Camp. The five young males you photographed aren't the Vuyela males, the Vuyela males are most likely from the Sark pride, as they were first seen in SE Klaserie with an older female positively identified as a Sark pride female. Reply