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(05-23-2018, 08:43 PM)Tshokwane Wrote: That I'm aware of, the Matsahapiri males did the killing of the Kambula's first cubs after the Matimba males chose to leave the area without a second fight. It wasn't a thing of the girls, the Matimbas just left.
Then, when the mohawk Matshapiri got injured and eventually died and the blonde male was left alone, the Avoca males came in and between them and then the Birmingham males, they killed the second set of cubs of the Kambulas. How could the girls avoid that?
It's something that has been clearly recorded in MalaMala's daily updates and also from Londolozi, there was no mention that they "just abandoned" the cubs.
So, let's not get it twisted.
Now, they have a new opportunity with the Birminghams, so let's hope they can make it better this time, plus the boys will take better care of them.
All that is true but there were also accounts of lionesses killing each others cubs and they already lost litters while the BB's were controling the pride so the jury is still out, let's see how things evolve and we will be able to tell for sure if it's just inexperience or inability to raise cubs.
Raising cubs no matter of the species is pure instinct, some younger females have this instinct more developed than even some of the older ones.Its my opinion after i followed different domestic species and wild also.But there can be some situation in which(im talking for the mammalian ones) they are not producing enough milk, or the quality of the milk its very poor.