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(02-07-2025, 05:46 PM)MrLoesoe Wrote: Three Monwana young males in Singita. Full bellies, one with what looks like a small leg injury, nothing serious
Wheres the 4th one?
Only 3 together for a while.
People in youtube comments constantly say he is with Mangheni pride. Not sure if that's still true though. But they have not been seen with the 4 of them for weeks. Always these 3 together. Also these 3 are bonding heavily.
There were still 5+ of them together in Timbavati last November, so hope they don't spread too thin.
Truth is this is how a lot of "upcoming" impressive young males coalitions end up. Start with a large, in this case 5 or 6, brother/cousin coalition, migrating away from the pride, end up with only 2 or 3. Or noone if things go bad. For all sort of reasons.
Lady Ximhungwe has two cubs, one of which is a male, the other unknown so far "[...] Yet it is still full of surprises - like the Ximungwe female showing us one of her two cubs yesterday. We estimate the cubs to be around six weeks old."
(02-07-2025, 10:50 PM)Ngonya Wrote: Lady Ximhungwe has two cubs, one of which is a male, the other unknown so far
These 2 cubs will have hard time with their much older cousins.
I really hope for strong bond, love, health and strength for the cubs.
Hopefully there cousins may help, and with Plain camp male lions around. I really hope to see them grow with love, and strength.
Plain camp male lions are in their best shape a male can be most of the time at eight years of age. Plain camp male lions are massive, there manes have grown they are strong, and it seems Ximungwue lionesses are their love. They love spending a lot of time with them they must love them, and with their two daughters they might help the two young cubs.
Also wouldn’t Gingerella start being with plain camp male lions more time? Maybe more cubs?
I would love to see Gingerella and daughters help Ximungwue lioness the way she helped Gingerella and her daughters.
PC male and Gingerella's daughters chased the Tumbela male away from the Ximhungwe lioness's den site. According to Inyati he was seen loitering around.
(02-08-2025, 02:32 PM)Mwk85 Wrote: PC male and Gingerella's daughters chased the Tumbela male away from the Ximhungwe lioness's den site. According to Inyati he was seen loitering around.
Sad to say but for the future of those cubs it is better the PCM get rid of Tumbela male asap. I can't understand how they haven't killed him yet...
(02-08-2025, 02:32 PM)Mwk85 Wrote: PC male and Gingerella's daughters chased the Tumbela male away from the Ximhungwe lioness's den site. According to Inyati he was seen loitering around.
Sad to say but for the future of those cubs it is better the PCM get rid of Tumbela male asap. I can't understand how they haven't killed him yet...
While trying not to be biased towards him, given he is one of my favorite lions, only going off of what we have seen for so many years of following him, and while he is a male lion, making anything possible, I do not believe he is a threat to any cubs, certainly not at this stage. Even when he and Limper were dominant of the Othawa Pride, and they would slip away and spend time with the Xim lioness and her little daughter, neither one of them ever showed aggression towards her daughter. Since then he has been around cubs of other prides, including most recently the Manghenis, and did not harm the cubs. The Mangheni cubs were actually much more aggressive towards him, than he towards them, they were even smacking him while feeding, and he didn't even smack back. For all the documented times of his being around the cubs from other prides, I have yet to see a single instance of aggression towards any of them. His behavior around cubs is one of the many reasons I try to follow him so closely, as I find it fascinating.
