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BYM & Torchwood really need to find a pride to fully takeovee & spread their genes. They have been tohether for a while now & only seem to have had on & off trysts with a few Avoca females.
Is there any pride near to them that has no dominant male/s?
(09-01-2022, 10:50 PM)Mabingilane Wrote: with a few Avoca females.
Only with one actually as far as I remember.
(09-01-2022, 10:50 PM)Mabingilane Wrote: Is there any pride near to them that has no dominant male/s?
No and moreover there is as well a lot potential competition from the up comming/nomadic coalitions around. Male lion competition in Timbavati is insanly packed up right now.
salty task for the skorro duo, these young people are not scattered and have numbers to annihilate what appears in front, it's a clock game the longer they stay in the territory the more confident they will be
Some images of the Mayambula pride from this morning on the boundary between Kings Camp and Tanda Tula - 6 females and all 11 cubs were present. Unfortunately it looks like the 3 youngest cubs are suffering from mange around their faces.
Image credit: Cathan Moore Bush Maniac
On the lion front, the Giraffe Pride made a couple of brief appearances but stuck to their habit of gravitating back to the south of our concession. This morning we spent most of it tracking the pride as they spent most of the night walking around within our area before eventually heading back south. Fortunately, the Mayambula Pride provided us with better tracking success. Jack spent a good part of one morning tracking the pride before eventually locating seventeen members of the pride on the remains of a zebra kill and Given and Ginger managed to track them down close to Safari Camp the next day.
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That evening we had an incredibly exciting sighting as the six lionesses went off hunting without the cubs; after failing on their first attempt at some impalas we relocated them just as they found a buffalo bull and arrived to the amazing scene of the buffalo running off with a lioness hanging onto his back! We followed them into a thicket and once the lions had got the buffalo to slow down, it looked like they might be able to bring it down as the lioness was still riding on his back, and two others were biting at his legs, but the big bull somehow managed to throw all the lions off and made a hasty retreat.
Earlier in the week, Ginger followed two of the lionesses back to a den site in the east and briefly got to see at least four of the newest cubs as they played around the den site. The Birmingham Breakaway males had a buffalo kill just north of our concession last weekend, once finishing it off they returned to the area for a couple of days feeding before the Skorro males picked up on their presence and set about chasing them off to the north – just what we want! Ginger also managed to find the single Sark Breakaway lioness in the west one morning, and we spent one evening with her waiting for her to wake up from her rest, but she had different ideas!
