Lions from Botswana

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(03-28-2025, 06:56 PM)BA0701 Wrote: Romeo, clearly the larger more aggressive of the two, having a dispute with Waziba, over a fresh zebra kill. The lioness and the cubs seem to pay the biggest price of the conflict, by being driven off the kill.

I seen this earlier and kept going back and forth over who’s who. My first thought was Romeo was the one winning but it’d meant his mane has seriously darkened in recent times, so then it was swinging back to Waziba. Romeo been acting very aggressive recently so makes sense with the change to his mane. 

Quite sure that it is indeed Romeo who won now tho, his mane above his cheeks is still a lil blonde, which is one of the main ways I identify him. It’s harder to explain how I identify Waziba, as he’s just that much similar to Pretty Boy II, but he has this natural demonic stare that just isn’t replicable in anything I’ve seen. Obviously I’ve seen fierce looking lions, but he has such dark eyes on top of that, and wasn’t a long enough part of Waziba for me to be sure as quick as normal. Reply

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Photo by Hassan.

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Old photo of TornNose with 4/5 Khwai males in 2014, all likely to have passed by now. Something important in what Hassan says at the end of his caption, that these males were among the first sons of Sekekama and TornNose, with there also being a number of males their own age in Marsh Pride, definitely older than Tsekedi and the other boys. These males weren’t identified, officially.

Assuming that is true tho, it is even more possible Tsunami was born into Marsh Pride, given that apparent photo of a younger him with Sekekama, age wise it could match up. I believe him and Gaam are somewhere around 13, Sekoti was born in late 2015 and was younger than Tsekedi and the rest who were likely born around some parts of 2013/14. Tsunami was likely born in 2011/12 at the latest making him older than them.

The Khwai males are the only officlal set of males sired by all 5 Selinda males, some could even argue the majority of the boys were sired by brothers of Sekekama and TornNose as they were likely more dominant, given they were older. If Tsunami was born in Marsh Pride, he would be the 6th male, we know of, that was sired by the 5 Selindas as a coalition, as opposed to after the 3 brothers split off. There’s no info on Gaam to speculate these things, he could be a brother, or a partner who joined up during nomadic stages, not a clue.

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Nvm also found this, showing a young male which he believes to be Gaam, also from Marsh Pride in 2014.

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(6 hours ago)KM600 Wrote: Nvm also found this, showing a young male which he believes to be Gaam, also from Marsh Pride in 2014.

This male resembles, a lot, the young son that Sekekama killed in SK. Reply