The Charleston Males

[Tshokwane]

The entire story is long, with a lot of pics, so I'm going to put them in many posts.

Credits to Corlette Wessels.

9 November 2016 - was a morning full of unhappiness amongst the adults of this pride. At 5;15am we saw the one male walking and soon after spotted the other male coming down the road. We went over to the other male as we wanted to see the interaction greeting between them. They known as the Charleston Males, a coalition that took over the Southern Pride from the Fourways Males about a year ago. The one with the hanging tooth was not friendly and you could see he was on a mission. He is also quite known with his tooth that just hang loose, and no one really knows how this happened. Many stories but guess the only one that knows what happened is him. He was melling, marking and walking at a fast pace.....

The 2 Brothers were not together - this is where they greeted each other after spending the night apart 

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Later the females called, the boys listened and after the second call they started to run in the direction the calls came from. Hanging Tooth was first on his way. We headed out that way to see how the greeting will go. The pride had quite a few cubs. Some bigger and some very small ones. Mandleve, the leader of this pride as she is known and quite an old female come up to greet him first. (Mandleve is what I was told means ears and her ears are smaller) and she is quite old now I was told and takes no nonsense! The pride greeted each other and the cubs greeted their fathers and all seemed ok at the time.

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