Othawa Pride

[criollo2mil]

I won’t ever get tired of posting these marvels!

Credit: Diff Marimane

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[FACR2212]

(Today, 12:26 AM)criollo2mil Wrote: I won’t ever get tired of posting these marvels!

Credit: Diff Marimane

Thanks for sharing!

The tattered ear female was very alert. As soon as the lionesses stood up, the cubs stayed down and kept still. Reply

[criollo2mil]

Against all odds…

At one stage nothing favored the Othawa females.

But to see them now with their own cubs is beyond words

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[criollo2mil]

"Inyati game lodge
Sabisands game reserve
Othawa lioness with her 2cubs,looks very good and healthy cubs,I think their all female,this is very important pride because this 2are the survival they were all seven and most killed by starvation,hyenas and their parents killed by Birmingham and nkuhuma male,we wish them all the best as they still have to face difficulties juring this period of raising cubs and territorial defence."

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[Tr1x24]

Othawas will definetly have easier time rising cubs now with weakening of Mhangeni pride, especially with PCMs abandoning them.

Biggest threat to Othawas future are Ximhungwes, especially when 2 Ximhungwe subs grow up a little more.

Ximhungwes already look to be strongest pride in Western sector/Singita since demise of 2 oldest Mhangeni females last year, and thats with only 2 adults.

With 4, they would be even stronger, especially if PCMs stay around, who prefer them the most.

So theres still a lot of hard work for young Othawa females to rebuild the pride.

For this area, dynamic was always that we had 2/3 stable/strong prides, and 1 struggling, we will se what future holds. Reply

[Mapokser]

I don't expect much of the 3 remaining Mangheni, they don't have it in them like their mothers did, they somehow managed to be dominated by 1 old Ximungwe who teamed up with a young inexperienced Othawa female.

Still, they might turn things around, I think they have 4 female cubs and they are all older than the Ximungwe cubs.

Ximunghwe even took over part of the Mangheni territory in Singita, but if Manghenis manage to raise the remaining cubs ( big if ) they can one day do to Ximungwe what they did to NK Breakaway.

These 3 current females are surprisingly weak but their daughters with PCM blood may be more similar to their grandmothers.

Meanwhile the Othawas' only hope is the PCM abandoning Ximungwe for them, might happen since they are the PCM new pride, or maybe the Ximungwes do have something other females don't and the PCM will alwyas favor them. Reply