The Birmingham Males

[Matimbalani]

(04-17-2020, 06:55 PM)Tr1x24 Wrote:

(04-17-2020, 06:00 PM)Matimbalani Wrote: Well, its a double edged sword. What if the three turn and surround the lone BBoy? The odds will be worse for the isolated BBoy (1 vs 3) than the lone Nwas male (1 vs 1). Size will only carry you so far. Its very rare for a one-on-one encounter to be fatal since even an overwhelmed lion will still have a mouth full of teeth.

As you said, it is double edge sword, but Bboys prob seen that this young males wont turn on them, that they are too afraid, so they take the risk.

As @Slayerd says, job of 1 vs 1 male is not to kill his opponent (as you said, 1vs1 rarely ends up fatal if both lions are adult) but to hold lone male, and wait for his brother to join, when he chase others away. 

I think this example can be seen on 2 Southern Matimbas vs young Fourways males, Ginger caught 1 male, Ginger was too powerful in 1 on 1 and he easly hold the young male, while Hairy Belly chased the others away and then join up and mauled the young male together. 

Lion clashes are more of a mind games..

You are right but from a purely chance based calculation the risk is higher for the BBoys than the Nwas.  So far as I know this was their first encounter and I don't think those end up in serious conflict as neither side knows the strength of the other. The point is to ultimately increase chances of reproduction, the less the chance of death or injury the better. 

If the Nwas were a bit older may be we would have seen what happened to Kinky Tail. If one lion takes a chance and stands their ground and attracts the others the tables will turn in an instant. On the other hand if his brothers keep running he will likely become toast. 

That being said a lot of factors play into this: the experience of the intruders, how many times they have had encounters before, their relative size, and the strength of bonds between coalitions. Usually it's the loner or outsider that goes first: the blondie of the Mohlabetsi coalition and the blondie in the Fourway coalition. Reply