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The Fourways males were found hot on the trail of a breeding herd of buffalo and had several opportunities to attack some stray members of the herd, but were eventually chased away by some big males.
Image by: Pravir Patel
Image date back from: 2015/16.
(10-21-2020, 11:17 PM)TinoArmando Wrote: the Smudge-nosed male look like much mistreated than this boy... I'll say that probably is the most dominant or the less dominant and often is beaten by his brother.
Here is a photo of the Kruger males. I don't know if the one in front is the Smudge-nosed... would be nice check their whiskers!
Where do you find this photos, nice work!
In which year was that?
Idk if that is smudge, he might be..
I was able to download those two photos of the Kruger males at Jonesdam area in Kruger National Park. If you ask where and how I found. To be honest I don't remember at all. I'll check my record at Google and If I find something. You will know
Throwback Thursday to September 2011 at MalaMala Game Reserve
New male lions (Othawa males M&T) sons of the Mapogo males.
They went into Kruger in 2012
Image by: (Ryan Driemeyer)
Image date back from: September 2011
(10-22-2020, 09:50 PM)TinoArmando Wrote: The last Ximhungwe lioness and her daughter at Arathusa Safari Lodge
Image by: EKat Boec
Image date back from: September 2020
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What a great picture!
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(10-22-2020, 09:50 PM)TinoArmando Wrote: The last Ximhungwe lioness and her daughter at Arathusa Safari Lodge
Its interesting how all 3 lone lionesses (Tsalala, Sparta and Ximhungwe) are left with only 1 surviving cub, althrough we dont know how many Ximhungwe lioness had cubs, its very rare that lioness gave birth to only 1 cubs, so she too prob had more..
Its seems that its hard for 1 lioness to keep an eye on multiple cubs, and usually the 1 who keep close to his mother and dont vander around survive..
Also,when mother is not there, in the case of leopard, hyena or dog attack, when there are multiple cubs,cubs has better chances to run away because predators cant focus on them all (Tsalala cubs case, current female managed to run away while leopard was busy killing her 2 siblings)..
Othawa/Robson males on the move Two old male Lions, Nhlanguleni Road, S36, Kruger National Park Image by: Roman Furrer Image date back from: September 2009
