Kambula/Ntsevu males

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(Yesterday, 11:02 PM)Potato Wrote:

(Yesterday, 09:43 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: I've been talking about Ross males in other thread, so just to give a bit of "hope" here.

Ross males, after years of battling with other territorial males, become fully territorial only around 6 yrs of age, 8 yrs later, they are one of the most successful duos we know of.

The issue with Kablulas isn't that they are unsuccesfull in fighting other coalitions and establishing themselfs as dominant coalition, but that they are not strong and/or confident enough to even try to fight and if that is the issue then they can almost never be successfull unless they will have no competition at all for a long enough peroid of time which is very unlikely especially since they are sticking in one single arena insteed moving around, looking for some easy enough arena to takeover.

Ross males you are comparing them to were different that way they had drive and strenght to become dominant males, just competition at the time was difficult, too dificult to handle for 2 young males. They however tried their best since they were 4 and half years old (so pretty much standard age for males within Kruger to try to establish themselfs as dominant males) when they mated with one of the Avoca females.

Also they did takeover territory at the age of 5, althrough in arena where there were no females at all.

For me, I don't see the Kambulas as weak, or lacking the courage to stand and fight, anyone really. The one chink in their armor, in my opinion, is they seem to lack any connection, or loyalty, with each other. They have all been beaten by multiple males, at different points, and been severely injured as a result, have never come across to me as scared or frightened to do it again. They just lack the bond that is necessary to be successful as a coalition, especially in an area where there are so many other coalitions who do possess such a bond.

At this stage in their lives, having literally lived their entire lives around one another, if they do not have this bond by now, I am just not sure they ever will. Though, I am constantly hoping they do find it, I would be very happy if these boys stuck beside one another, and built a legendary legacy together. I do not believe there is a coalition in Sabi Sands, who, if one male is fighting other males, and his coalition partner is within earshot of that fight, they would come running, I do not feel that way about the Kambulas, which is very odd given their history of growing up together.

If you think about it, if these boys had a tight bond, there isn't a pride<s> in the area they couldn't take, or a coalition they couldn't beat. They could steamroll their way through all of Sabi Sands, if they just stuck together. Reply