Lions in South-Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia

[Cath2020]

The Trichardt Males were doing fabulously well!  I just cannot believe that one suddenly disappeared.  They were very much in prime shape.  All those cubs!!  I think 22 total!  So much legacy in jeopardy.  I really hope that some of them will survive.  Unfortunately, the lone male will have to hold the prides for another year at least and maybe the oldest will have a fighting chance if the lionesses separate and runs off with them.  All cubs are under a year old....

Edited to add that I just checked some footage and apparently there were at least 5 cubs seen with one of the Trichardts back in mid-May of last year, playing and jumping on him, so the oldest must be around 1.2 or 1.3 months already....as they would be around 3 months by then.  Out of 22 offspring, surely a good handful will survive at least.  If more than half make it, then that is way more than was hoped for considering how young so many are now!  Can one male, the less dominant of the two, protect all of them for a year or more? Reply