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(02-19-2021, 03:32 PM)Tonpa Wrote: Stuck this map together from the images in the video
Its a few months old but what has changed since? The Opren males are dead and the Koppies pride was basically destroyed, anything else?
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I was thinking about linking a video with this map to you when you asked the other day, but it quite different now.
One neat way how to update on this is these updates below. Basically Nkuhuma are long gone from Manyeleti, from the coalitions on the map, only Red Road male is still going as dominant male in Manyeleti (Dark Mane Avoca have not been on the property for weeks now), Koppies pride is missing, Talamatis are more south, Ximhugwe and Nharus probably too, the first will be harder to pinpoint as the pride is nomadic sole lioness with a cub avoiding other lions, I would consider Gowrie gate to be somewhat central of where she is moving, not sure how regular she is in Manyeleti but any guestimates might be skewed by more frequent about northern Sabi Sands sighting; the Nharus are just trying to avoid young Tinstwalos because they have small cubs and already had their kill takeover before which likely laid to loss of some cubs (there is video of the pride and Red Road Male on a carcass few post before, that is from the dam in southwestern corner, Dixie dam I think it is called, when Talamtis were gone, far in Sabi Sands; not that it is Nharus territory but they will move in south when they can). Obviously Tintswalos emerged as a new coalition, the area on the map is likely the same (the males were called after the camp they have been seen frequently around even), the Mbiri pride territory just expanded - if they have 4 young Tinstwalos with them, they can go where they want. Skorros experienced takeovers, somebody should fill in, I believe most of that happens outside of Manyeleti. Birmingham pride has its own thread, the breakaway used here might be misleading, the individuals entering Manyeleti would be (temporary or not) breakaways from Brimingham pride but not from Bimingham Breakaway pride (which is next to Birmingham pride in Timbavati).