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Coalitions of Kruger National Park
Coalitions of Kruger National Park
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Coalitions of Kruger National Park
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Photo Credit Mohammed jinnah
Eastern bank males  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Photos Credits Jp.birdfocus
Shish Male lions  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Photo by P. crevani  *This image is copyright of its original author
September 2017 sightings
Shishangeni male lions  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Kruger Male lions
Shish. Male  *This image is copyright of its original author Shishangaan Male lions  *This image is copyright of its original author Shishangeni Male lion  *This image is copyright of its original author Unknown males  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Credits to Latest Sightings - Kruger.
06:52 Vurhami lion pride, 9 lions in total crossed the road from west to east H4-2, just before Vurhami bridge Near Crocodile Bridge Tinged by Belinda Anderson  *This image is copyright of its original author I'm not entirely sure who this tank is, so I'm not going to especlate, but he just looked too good to not share him.  (10-10-2017, 06:02 AM)Tshokwane Wrote: Credits to Latest Sightings - Kruger. Impressive looking cat. 400+ kgs easily, I'd venture to guess (10-11-2017, 08:34 PM)chaos Wrote: 400+ kgs easily, I'd venture to guess I hope that's a typo. But no, a lion is a hunter, primarily. So he needs to be able to do it. In any case, and it would be an extreme case, the heaviest for a healthy animal would be something around 250-270 kgs, based on the single example we have. More than that would be a fat lion and, frankly, I don't think the demands a dominant lion faces in the wild would allow him to get to that size. Remember that lions don't just lie around all day waiting for meals as we were taught in the TV, but that they patrol their territories and they hunt. 
Only the Pleistocene African lions can weigh up to more than 400 kg.
The modern African lions have adjusted down their size according to the currently available prey base which cannot sustain the 400 kg wild lions in its ecosystems. 
From Latest Sightings - Kruger:
11:30 Male lion on the move S147, just off the H1-4 Near Olifants19km from Olifants Tinged by Marelize  *This image is copyright of its original author
Photo Leander De Koker
Kruger wildlife sightings Jock male  *This image is copyright of its original author
Jock males.
From Latest Sightings - Kruger: Such an awesome sighting of the lions seen on Tuesday walking on the H10 road near Lower Sabie Tinged by Angelika Fahrbach-Bader  *This image is copyright of its original author
Jock males.
From Latest Sightings - Kruger: 05:40 2 male lion H4-2, 3km S of Lower Sabie Tinged by Garth & Alana  *This image is copyright of its original author
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