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(02-09-2023, 08:46 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: Not sure exactly when these photos where taken, but looks recent based of his condition, might be one of the last photos of him :
This is very heartbreaking news to read about today for me. I'm so very upset. I was rooting for this lion. Loved his tenacity and persistence till the very end. He hung on for about a year after the attack by 3 lions! He never gave up until the very last moment.
Hard to see these photos.... and the last one struck me...He's very wasted now by that point, yet the look on his face is one of acceptance, not a haunted/scared look at all. Just as he didn't give up on life so easily, so he realizes that he no longer can battle on. The fight to keep up with his coalition mates is over.
Fourways????
U mean dark Mane jr. And Blondie fourways??
Sons of Majinglanis.
I’m not sure I was just told the old fourways males I believe this girl is around 8 years old I think we don’t have a thread for the southern pride so I’m not 100% sure
(02-10-2023, 02:18 AM)Ttimemarti Wrote: I believe this girl is around 8 years old I think we don’t have a thread for the southern pride so I’m not 100% sure
She is born around late 2015/early 2016, so only around 7.
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(02-10-2023, 02:18 AM)Ttimemarti Wrote: I believe this girl is around 8 years old I think we don’t have a thread for the southern pride so I’m not 100% sure
She is born around late 2015/early 2016, so only around 7.
Thank you.
By any chance that matshpiri males or Charleston males fathered her as they were the dominant coalition at this area during 2015-16.
(02-10-2023, 06:26 AM)DARK MANE Wrote: Thank you.
By any chance that matshpiri males or Charleston males fathered her as they were the dominant coalition at this area during 2015-16.
Charlestons takeover after Fourways in 2016, but didn't kill Fourways offspring, its said she was Fourways offspring, she and 1 young male survived from Fourways , male joined 2 Talamatis they disappeared in Kruger in 2020.
02-10-2023, 01:20 PM( This post was last modified: 02-10-2023, 01:21 PM by DARK MANE )
(02-10-2023, 10:49 AM)Tr1x24 Wrote: Charlestons takeover after Fourways in 2016, but didn't kill Fourways offspring, its said she was Fourways offspring, she and 1 young male survived from Fourways , male joined 2 Talamatis they disappeared in Kruger in 2020.
Ohhhhhh..
And how come this pride reduce to just one female?
I mean I have learnt about Charleston, sparta, sand river and PC pride were divided between matshpiri, Charleston and mantimahle coalition and a continuous war broke out between them in 2017-18. Each coalition was killing other cubs. Due to which Charleston and Sparta pride got extinct and the other two were rescued by southern avocas in later years.
Was the same story with Southern pride???
(02-10-2023, 01:20 PM)DARK MANE Wrote: Was the same story with Southern pride???
SP didn't manage to raise offspring to adulthood for years because of constant change of territorial coalitions and unstable times in between 2010 - 2020.
So old females died and there was no new young females to replace them, from superpride they shrinked only to 1 female in 2020.
(02-10-2023, 01:41 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote: SP didn't manage to raise offspring to adulthood for years because of constant change of territorial coalitions and unstable times in between 2010 - 2020.
So old females died and there was no new young females to replace them, from superpride they shrinked only to 1 female in 2020.