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Lions of Sabi Sands
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Some good news: the third Othawa cub has been found alive and well. Seems he wasn't crushed by the elephants, merely separated from the rest.
Miracles do happen. Johan and Walter found the Othawa pride and were speechless when they noticed that the missing cub had been found. Credit: image by Stuart Buy at Leopard Hills, posted September 19, 2018  *This image is copyright of its original author
This instagram picture of the young northern Avoca male was tagged with the location of Sabi Sands Game Reserve, which if true means they are getting very confident pushing south. Or the more likely scenario is that the photographer took it in the north and tagged it incorrectly. In any case, these boys are clearly coming into their prime. Credit: image by Vernon Cresswell, posted September 20, 2018.
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A sequence of the fuller-maned Avoca male sitting on a granite boulder in the Sand River. Credit: images by Josh van der Ploeg at Kirkman's Camp, posted September 19, 2018
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First of all, I want to say Hello to everyone!
I'm glad that I found your forum because I'm big fan of Sabi Sand big cats. I especially focus on Djuma, Nkorho area. I'm safarilive viewer since 2016, I watch this show mostly every day. My favourite lion pride are Nkuhumas of course :) And I have some interesting update about them for you. 22 september, Djuma - Nkuhuma pride, 10 individuals. Very interesting is that one subadult male joined this pride in last time! Lioness tolerate him. We believe that he comes from Talamati pride, because he looks like one of their older subadult males. I think he ran off from the Northern Avoca males to the South, into Djuma.  *This image is copyright of its original author Newcomer  *This image is copyright of its original author
Thank you @sanjay!
In last week we had a lot of lions activity at Nkorho. Torchwood pride spent a lot of time there... and two mysterious male. Nkorho rangers said that they are skittish.. I wonder who that may be? This guys spent some time with two Torchwood lioness and once with one lioness from Nkuhuma Pride. I have some screenshots of this boys to show you:  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
  (09-24-2018, 05:03 PM)T Rabbit Wrote: This young talamati male is son of selati males, isn't?Yes I believe so. How cool would it be if the Nkuhuma male the Talamati and the Othawa male would somehow find each other and form a coalition ? Anyways this is great the Nkuhuma male might not have to leave the pride alone
24 september, Nkuhumas for last minutes of sunset safari, they were in northerrn part of Djuma - that young male who I believe comes from Talamati Pride is still with the Nkuhuma Pride.
Nkuhuma young male  *This image is copyright of its original author Both young males on the same pic  *This image is copyright of its original author
Southern Avoca mating with Eyrefield lioness. Looks like she lost her cubs.
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(09-27-2018, 01:23 AM)Herekitty Wrote:Good to see that the Selati's finally have a surviving off-spring. Any updates on the whereabouts of the last Selati?(09-18-2018, 01:12 PM)Herekitty Wrote:
I thought I recently read something about the whereabouts of the remaining Selati male, but I can't seem to find it.
The new young male seen around the Nkuhuma pride is settling in well dispite the fact that some of the pride females still wont accept his presence. Credit: Nkorho Bush Lodge, posted September 22, 2018  *This image is copyright of its original author I read elsewhere that the young male was getting snarled at by one of the Nkuhuma females, but the young Nkuhuma male had befriended him.
They are Mhangeni boys, sons of Majingilane. They are looking soo poor right now, and looks like one them just died in last weeks.. You can read story of this boys here https://www.facebook.com/mhangeniboys/
(09-28-2018, 01:56 PM)Herekitty Wrote: The Nkuhumas have been displaying some compassion for young male interlopers lately. Excerpts from Safari Live show the Nkuhumas tolerating two mange ridden sub-adult (perhaps Styx?) males.The Styx are looking way better than these two, they are riddled with mange, plus why would two of the Styx leave their pride. They are probably two of the mhangeni sub-adults. Interesting lion dynamics happening at the moment, a future coalition of male lions from three different prides I don't know how rare that is but it would be cool to see. |
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