Lions of Timbavati

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(08-19-2024, 08:16 PM)Potato Wrote: Tanda Tula update

The Vuyela males began the week without much activity, and only one male briefly spent time with the River Pride.  Tracks indicated that they were moving into Mayambula territory more and more, and a couple of males spent three days mating with a lioness from the Klaserie’s so-called River Pride.  This is the third time we have seen this particular female mating with the Vuyela males, but it doesn’t appear as though the males have done anything more to take control of this pride.  As a pride known for killing elephants, I am putting my money on the fact that they may have been the lions that attacked and severely injured a rhino cow during the previous week.  Despite the vets best efforts, the poor rhino succumbed to the wounds, and this happened to be no more than 500m from where the males where on honeymoon.  After the lioness moved off, four males spent three days finishing off the rhino carcass before leaving the scraps to the vultures.

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The Sark Breakaway Pride sadly seem to have lost another cub, and they only have four of their newest litter remaining.  The pride showed up a couple of times around Nkhari, and we spent an afternoon watching them on the prowl; one lioness then got up and ran across a clearing and we followed trying to determine what had caught her attention.

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Is the Klaserie River pride mentioned here the same pride with Hosi and Socha? Or is that another River pride? Reply