Kambula/Ntsevu Pride

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I remember not long ago before both prides split for good, K3 was with her previous litter ( of which one is alive in the Kambula pride ), they were with the Kambula pride and K3 got up and straight up murdered one of the cubs from the other females for apparently no reason at all as reported by Londolozi, saying they didn't know why she attacked the cub. She didn't kill the cub at the moment, but IIRC broke its back and it died later on. It wasn't even a feeding frenzy nor anything.

And years before there was a report where one Kambula female killed the cubs of her sister, everybody assumed it was K6 because she's cubless and the most aggressive, but now it's impossible to tell. K6 was also rough with the Ndhzenga cubs and got in fights with the other females over it, possibly being one of the reasons why she split.


Males killing their own cubs is already very rare and when it happens it's by "accident", a paw swipe that ended up being stronger than it should during the feeding frenzy, but I had never seen lionesses killing cubs in their own pride, I've seen aunts who abandoned their nephews after they lost their mother, I've seen the Ximhungwe females attacking a missing subadult who lost his mother and returned to the pride after a few weeks ( eventually killing it with Mr.T after he kept trying to be accept back ), but the Kambula/Ntsevu females are the first ones I see killing their own pride cubs for seemingly no reason, and also acting very aggressive towards cubs sometimes.

Normally even the aunts adopt the cubs in a pride as their own and never even slap them, even with the males, they'll almost never slap a persistent small cub over the table, as they know it could kill them. Reply