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Avoca male lions
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Avoca male lion close encounter
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A beautiful male of the northern Avoca coalition known as "Blondie" in his prime, currently in a great physical condition!
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I remember a few reports saying blondie was looking skinny, great to see him doing well
I agree @titose. I'm not even convinced Mohawk was dominate over Dark Mane... the most recent interaction doesn't count since they were split up for so long. Mohawk is very aggressive with outsiders and even the females but when it comes to his brothers it was always Blondie and DM putting him in his place. We don't see everything in the wild though so who knows if there are interactions we missed where Mohawk is the dominant one.
 (03-29-2021, 09:31 PM)titose Wrote: Many people think that in the hierarchy between the Northern Avoca males "Mohawk" is number one, when in the few videos of them in confrontation, "Blondie" is always or all the videos I have seen is dominant over Mohawk Its well known (before this video) that Blondie is the dominant/stronger one of the 2, he always has 1st mating rights between them.. But Mohawk has more agressive character, seen by his behavior on many footages of him on a kills, vs young males and lionesses.. They are in a way similar to Nhenha (bigger/stronger) and Tinyo (agressive) .. @Gijima pre injury/split DM was the most dominant/strongest one, but now its impossible to tell,we have only that footage of him vs Mohawk, in which Mohawk clearly dominated him, but they are split for too long and dont hang out so i dont think we can speak of any hierarchy there as a trio..
I believe it is as initially was when they first took over:
1.DM 2.Blondie 3.Mohawk I believe even with his injury DM will be able to out intimidate and dominate his brothers in mating rights (btw I recently seen some wild earh wide in which guide was talking about DM's injury and said that even with that injury dominated his brothers for mating right over some Nkuchuma lionesses). I also believe that Mohawk's reputation of being particularly aggressive is much overrated. Also as long as both Blondie and Mohawk are in good condition I do not see any reason why dominance between them would be any different than it was when they took over in 2018. (03-29-2021, 10:57 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: He is not particulary agressive, but he is more agressive then Blondie thats for sureThat is statement I disagree with. That is why I said "much overrated" insteed of just "overrated". (03-29-2021, 10:57 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: we already had discussion about that in the pastYup, but since someone started that discussion again, I shared my personal view on this think.
Avoca male lion. Lions have excellent night vision. They are 6 times more sensitive to light than humans. This gives them a distinct advantage over some prey species when hunting at night.
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