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Maps of Sabi Sand Coalitions Males and Prides

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Maps of Sabi Sand Coalitions Males and Prides

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11-24-2022, 02:43 AM

(11-24-2022, 01:07 AM)BA0701 Wrote:
(11-23-2022, 06:24 PM)hotbit Wrote: Around 130 lions, as reserve area is 650 sq km (if I found correctly), on average density is 1 lion per 5 sq km.
Density seems to be at least two times higher than in Kruger Park (~12 sq km for a lion: area 19632 sq km, lions ~1650)

If Willem Botha's often quoted remark about the Mapogos killing 100 lions is accurate, it shows just how destructive to the lion population they were, the very definition of a wrecking crew. If true, they wiped out nearly every lion in Sabi Sands, based on this current data. Perhaps the population was a lot more dense back then.

More importantly they failed at siring succesful replacement, most notably also due to the infanticide of the coalition progeny that gave MrT the Satan monicker. And with the current Othawa pride fate, there is potentially even more dead ends of their bloodline.
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