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 (12-20-2020, 05:32 AM)TinoArmando Wrote: Matjulu coalition near Berg en Dal - very impressive young males!!www.instagram.com/p/BfODDsiBNEH/ These are the Matjulu males after they jumped the fence outside the KNP into a human-populated area and entered a farmers' area!
The Middelvlei male coalition at Middelvlei waterhole on the H1-6, north of Letaba!
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9 members (3 lionesses and 6 youngsters) from the Mjejane/Lukimbi Pride treated us to a fantastic sighting this week. They are thriving under the protection of the 3 powerful and formidable males from the Mjejane coalition.
https://www.facebook.com/leovantage/videos/1764752223684805 (12-20-2020, 04:32 PM)Potato Wrote: 9 members (3 lionesses and 6 youngsters) from the Mjejane/Lukimbi Pride treated us to a fantastic sighting this week. They are thriving under the protection of the 3 powerful and formidable males from the Mjejane coalition. Those youngsters should be around 2 yrs of age now. (12-20-2020, 01:12 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:(12-20-2020, 06:23 AM)titose Wrote: These are the Matjulu males after they jumped the fence outside the KNP into a human-populated area and entered a farmers' area! no bro, in that video the Matjulu males were sedated and relocated back into kruger, thanks to Louis Strauss and the Jock Safari Lodge working team @Tr1x24 (12-20-2020, 08:02 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:(12-20-2020, 06:41 PM)titose Wrote: no bro, in that video the Matjulu males were sedated and relocated back into kruger, thanks to Louis Strauss and the Jock Safari Lodge working team @Tr1x24 There is very little information about these males, what is known is that before this sighting one of the Matjulu males had disappeared (possibly killed by the neighboring KNP ranchers) as they were relocated twice, In 2018 the last 2 Matjulu males were often seen near the Matjulu bridge but after the middle of that year their sightings were fewer and they had moved further west as 2 coalitions with greater numbers were often seen in the Matjulu bridge area (EBM and the young Jock males), In 2019 there were sightings of the 2 males but less and less frequent and until this 2020 when Ricky da Fonseca said that there is still one of the Matjulu males that is alive and you can still see them in the Matjulu area! (12-20-2020, 09:00 PM)titose Wrote: There is very little information about these males, what is known is that before this sighting one of the Matjulu males had disappeared (possibly killed by the neighboring KNP ranchers) as they were relocated twice, In 2018 the last 2 Matjulu males were often seen near the Matjulu bridge but after the middle of that year their sightings were fewer and they had moved further west as 2 coalitions with greater numbers were often seen in the Matjulu bridge area (EBM and the young Jock males), In 2019 there were sightings of the 2 males but less and less frequent and until this 2020 when Ricky da Fonseca said that there is still one of the Matjulu males that is alive and you can still see them in the Matjulu area! Could be the male that was killed by 2 younger Kambaku males in Kambaku Lodge in mid 2019 be Matjulu male? the other male run away and survived. That territory is now fully under Young Jock males control, even S. Shishangeni male was ousted from there, aswell as what is left of EBM's. (12-20-2020, 09:17 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:(12-20-2020, 09:00 PM)titose Wrote: There is very little information about these males, what is known is that before this sighting one of the Matjulu males had disappeared (possibly killed by the neighboring KNP ranchers) as they were relocated twice, In 2018 the last 2 Matjulu males were often seen near the Matjulu bridge but after the middle of that year their sightings were fewer and they had moved further west as 2 coalitions with greater numbers were often seen in the Matjulu bridge area (EBM and the young Jock males), In 2019 there were sightings of the 2 males but less and less frequent and until this 2020 when Ricky da Fonseca said that there is still one of the Matjulu males that is alive and you can still see them in the Matjulu area! Yes, there is a possibility that the old Matjulu male was the one who was killed by the Kambaku males, I made that reference in one of the previous posts. And this area is not controlled by the young Jock males, but by the Mjejane males if you see the new sightings of the Mjejane males are currently in that area (the Mjejane males took over the territory of the EBM). @Tr1x24
Any idea who could that be? Two of the as far as I remember were seen in a fight in that arena few months ago.
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The two S125 males seen close to Nhlanguleni picnic site, from Tamboti, two males and one female, November 2020
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(12-20-2020, 09:00 PM)titose Wrote:Exactly, As per Ricky da Fonseca the possibly last Matjulu male is still alive in the S36.(12-20-2020, 08:02 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:(12-20-2020, 06:41 PM)titose Wrote: no bro, in that video the Matjulu males were sedated and relocated back into kruger, thanks to Louis Strauss and the Jock Safari Lodge working team @Tr1x24 |
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