N'waswitshaka males

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(12-06-2024, 08:04 AM)Mapokser Wrote: I hope it gets shared here eventually ( I can't right now ) but there's a video of the Ndhzenga being unusually aggressive towards the Kambula pride, with no food around, they met and one of the males charges the pride and some individuals multiple times before establishing their dominance roaring.

Later we see a subadult male with a growing mane moving off.

I wonder if they will start to pressure the older male subs who should be around 2yo now and that was the reason they were "attacking" the pride.

They do a great job defending the territory and spending time with the pride but never seemed to be very fond of cubs, being more of the type to ignore them and only show affection to their brothers, add to that that they have 9 hungry growing sons in the Kambula pride boldly taking their share of the food, Ndhzengas may start pushing them off sooner than one may have expected.

Interesting. We never saw Ndzhengas in that sitaution. With Southern pride they had two daughters, no sons and Styx pride they abandoned early - there is just a picture of the younglings being quite uneasy around them when Ndzhengas visit them suddenly after long time (with more young males alive back then, not just Floppy Ear). But so far we never saw them pushing any sons out of the pride, this is gonna be the first time. Reply