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(07-24-2022, 09:50 PM)DARK MANE Wrote: They are saying blondie might be suffering from TB.
He wasn't saying he "Has" BovTB but describing the 2 reasons why that back hip/leg injury is so common on male lions from Kruger/Mara/Serenghetti, etc.... My opinion is if its from TB there should be other details, for example; very skinny, sickly looking, etc... to go along with the boney hip. I think Blondie has prior injury that never healed just like so many others.
(07-25-2022, 01:44 PM)BigLion39 Wrote: He wasn't saying he "Has" BovTB but describing the 2 reasons why that back hip/leg injury is so common on male lions from Kruger/Mara/Serenghetti, etc.... My opinion is if its from TB there should be other details, for example; very skinny, sickly looking, etc... to go along with the boney hip. I think Blondie has prior injury that never healed just like so many others.
Blondie has that "skinny" sindrome since 2019, alongside occasionaly limping on either back or more recently front leg.
He definitely has some sort of health issue, is that TB or something else, we dont know.
2/2 southern avocas on a kill. ( from 2:15 to 3:10)
They are in much better conditions compare to their little northern brothers.
Though they numerically not very strong ( just 2), they hold the southern sabi sands exceptionally well from the past 4 yrs.
I really hope we get sightings of their male linage too ( like we got of nkuhumas and talamatis boys).
(07-25-2022, 08:30 PM)DARK MANE Wrote: 2/2 southern avocas on a kill. ( from 2:15 to 3:10)
They are in much better conditions compare to their little northern brothers.
Though they numerically not very strong ( just 2), they hold the southern sabi sands exceptionally well from the past 4 yrs.
I really hope we get sightings of their male linage too ( like we got of nkuhumas and talamatis boys).
Their sons in Sand River pride should be chased out in a few months. They are at least 3 years old if im not wrong.
(07-26-2022, 03:37 AM)Mdz123 Wrote: Their sons in Sand River pride should be chased out in a few months. They are at least 3 years old if im not wrong.
No, oldest sub male is just over 1.5 yrs old, other/s even younger :
(07-26-2022, 03:37 AM)Mdz123 Wrote: Their sons in Sand River pride should be chased out in a few months. They are at least 3 years old if im not wrong.
No, oldest sub male is just over 1.5 yrs old, other/s even younger :
I got a little confised here as I thought S. avocas took over Sand River pride in 2019 and then Plains Cmap pride in 2020. I guess its the other way around.
(07-27-2022, 02:02 AM)Mdz123 Wrote: I got a little confised here as I thought S. avocas took over Sand River pride in 2019 and then Plains Cmap pride in 2020. I guess its the other way around.
They took both in 2019.
There is one young female in Sand River pride born around late 2019, but next cubs where born 1 year later.
Mohawk and Blondie with the Nkuhuma Pride. Guide says since 1994 wild lion populations have declined by 43%, which is equal parts heart breaking and infuriating.
