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(06-30-2024, 05:00 AM)RookiePundit Wrote: The reason given, that they were not used to vehicles and were running from them, related to the original Gijimas. Am I mistaken?
iirc, the original Gijimas did have this name for the same reason
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(06-30-2024, 05:00 AM)RookiePundit Wrote: The reason given, that they were not used to vehicles and were running from them, related to the original Gijimas. Am I mistaken?
iirc, the original Gijimas did have this name for the same reason
That's what I meant - that's why the original Gijimas got the name. Therse Gijimas 2.0 got it instead because they were chased by Ndzhenga in that rather impactful encounter, i.e. running. That encounter was sort of first big thing they did, very shortly after being spotted for the first time in Sabi Sands, which, besides poor Ubuso gotten wworst of it, resulted in Ndzhenga getting them running (Gijima). I don't even remember a story about them avoiding vehicles or raunnng from them leading to the name. My two cents - SC'AR mixed up (info about) the two Gijima coalitions while researching the video.
There was definetly some fighting aswell, as we can see blood on DM's mouth, scratch on LM male's nose and quite a bit of blood dripping from his right back leg, so LM male was in a fight with multiple Nkhulus, prob only a brief moment.
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So it seems Gijimas were actually chased in their own territory first and LM just decided he was bored of being on the defensive end. Second and third photo are interesting cos while LM had one Nkhulu pinned down, another Nkhulu was so close by. Yet, LM was able to do atleast some damage to this same male without the second brother getting involved, atleast straight away, or at all. So either these two brothers have an extremely poor bond, especially being territorial males of age or they have such little experience fighting other dominant males.
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(6 hours ago)KM600 Wrote: So it seems Gijimas were actually chased in their own territory first
No?
Report from Sabi Sabi says that Gijima tracks went east of the reserve in the night , then in the morning they got chased from east back west into the reserve, then Gijimas turned around and chased Nkhulus back east.
From this it looks like Gijimas first ventured east into Nkhulus territory, night before morning clash.
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LM Gijima is making quite a name for himself, turning around and confronting his rivals while being outnumbered, and then throwing them around, forcing them to flee (with support of his bro). What a legend.
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(6 hours ago)KM600 Wrote: Yet, LM was able to do atleast some damage to this same male without the second brother getting involved, atleast straight away, or at all.
LM Gijima has blood on his back leg, so he was in a fight with atleast 2 males at once:
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I assume he pinned 1 male down, then 2nd male bite him from behind to rescue his bro.
Then they prob flee, as possibly that DM Gijima was charging in to support his bro.
(6 hours ago)KM600 Wrote: So it seems Gijimas were actually chased in their own territory first and LM just decided he was bored of being on the defensive end. Second and third photo are interesting cos while LM had one Nkhulu pinned down, another Nkhulu was so close by. Yet, LM was able to do atleast some damage to this same male without the second brother getting involved, atleast straight away, or at all. So either these two brothers have an extremely poor bond, especially being territorial males of age or they have such little experience fighting other dominant males.
It's possible the bond isn't as strong, especially compared to the two Gijimas who seem to be very insync. But also the bigger the coalition, the greater the chance of there being a weak link/weak links. By the sounds of it two of the brothers just turned around and ran as soon as LM Gijima turned round himself. In the original video I noticed Snip Tail Nkuhlu at the back, so he was seemingly the last to run, or one of the ones that at least tried to fight. He might even have been the one that LM pinned down. But his brothers didn't feel like actually taking on the two Gijimas.
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(3 hours ago)Tr1x24 Wrote:
(6 hours ago)KM600 Wrote: Yet, LM was able to do atleast some damage to this same male without the second brother getting involved, atleast straight away, or at all.
LM Gijima has blood on his back leg, so he was in a fight with atleast 2 males at once:
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I assume he pinned 1 male down, then 2nd male bite him from behind to rescue his bro.
Then they prob flee, as possibly that DM Gijima was charging in to support his bro.
I initially thought that too, but there’s no mention in the caption of the Nkhulus fighting back, albeit there’s very little information anyways. I just assumed the blood was a result of the earlier altercation. Nonetheless, a great display of power from Gijimas once again.
