Lions of Timbavati

[Fredymrt]

The end of a story . The only survivor from 9 Giraffe pride cubs that was born just over 2 years ago. All other cubs were killed in 2 day's by the trilogy Males . Phillipe as we called him this last week or so , managed to stay alive for these past 2 years . He was attacked and bitten by 2 other male lions and was paralyse in his back . He was also very weak due to lack of food .

He was a fighter of note and it was sad to see him deteriorate this last week . Nature at its cruelest but the way it has to play outplay out . He finally was killed during the night by a leopard . As I watched this morning , 2 Tawny eagle were on the carcass and got chased of by a juvenile Bateleur . The Bateleur were chased of by the leopard and hyena arrived and chased the leopard . The hyena dragged the carcass around but did not eat it and left . A hour later 4 white headed vultures and 4 Lapped faced vultures also visited the carcass at the same time but did not ate much At least the suffering was at end and he had battles fought over his carcass . What a fitting end for such a little fighter

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