#othawa pride

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Mother and daughter from the Othawa Pride Ulusaba Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands, South Africa Photographed by Klaus Engel

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Othawa lion cubs show off

Waking up to the sound of a lion’s roar, echoed by a few other roars, is one of the best ways to get your day started. A few nights back the three Tumbela male lions and the Othawa lion pride came to visit the lodge. The stillness of the night was constantly interrupted with the […]Othawa lion cubs show off I get so excited when I see this blog has updated! Cal takes the most amazing photos and…

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Othawa Pride

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A NEW HOPE FOR OTHAWA PRIDE!

Two cubs were born to the Othawa Pride sired by the Plains Camp Males. This comes a few years after the last two surviving lionesses of the pride lost their mother, Sassy, at just one-and-a-half years old. The odds were against the subadults and they were expected to die as they were surrounded by marauding males and territorial females - both of whom had a hand in their mother's deteriorating health, eventually leading to her death by euthanasia by Kruger National Park. (Source)

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the plains camp males are fr with the othawa pride now lol. i thought they won’t come of age until a bit later but i guess three years old is close enough to four? for comparison, tsalala only started mating (to our knowledge) late last year when she was four. her cubs may have been fathered by the plains camp males as well.

the boys are seven years old this year and are in their prime but the kambula boys are getting older and bigger too. they just had an encounter a few months back, including their sister who i saw in the videos was frothing at the mouth in aggression. i just hope their young cubs make it to a less dependent age before any major showdown occurs and we lose one or both of the plains camp males!!!

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Once a mighty pride, these two girls are the last of the Othawas after having lost their mother and aunts in quick succession thanks to back-to-back attacks from nearby males and the rival Ximhungwe Pride. Ever since the age of one, they’ve defied the odds and thrived on their own as mere subadults. Long live the iconic Othawa Pride!

Photos by Savannah Game Reserve.

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ummmmm the othawa girls have cubs now???? where tf have i been lmao

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The old days of Othawa Young Male and his rule of the Mangheni Pride. He was killed by the Birmingham Males in May 2021.

Othawa Young Male and cubs Inyati Game Lodge, South Africa Photographed by Roger Hlongwane

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Love this girl - I first discovered her as a cub playing around with the Othawa Young Male, who accepted her despite knowing she was not his daughter. Unfortunately, her adoptive father was eventually killed by her biological fathers from the late Birmingham Coalition. She is the sole survivor of the ten cubs born in the 2018-2019 season and is now a mother herself.

Tinya of the Mangheni Pride Savannah Private Game Reserve, South Africa Photographed by Aidan Dunlop

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the ximhungwe lioness has two newly introduced sons. she is elderly and is the last of her bloodline as gingerella, the other pride lioness, was adopted from the othawa pride after being rejected by her mother sassy (who was hormonal following the birth of her new daughters). hopefully the boys have a better chance at life compared to their late elder brother who was a singleton birth and died as a cub. if this isn’t the old lioness’ last litter, i also hope her next one would be girls just to help keep the pride alive.

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the plains camp males are only two in number and are already shaping up to be the most dominant of the sabi sands coalitions. they fathered the two nkuhuma subadults (whom they barely contact), the new mangheni litters, and gingerella’s daughters. it’s possible they may have fathered the new tsalala pride cubs, which is ironic considering they probably killed their grandmother back when they were first conquering sabi sands in 2021. the boys are seven years old this year and don’t seem to be exiting their prime soon, but then again the four kambula boys are growing up and i don’t know if they’ll be as aggressive as the plains camp males were at four years old.

i only hope the prides don’t suffer another setback due to male lion politics: the ximhungwe pride is only two lionesses strong, the manghenis have had a string of misfortune raising their young, and the tsalala lioness is the last of her 26-year-old pride. the othawa subadult girls also still hang around with their marauding father, skorro, who might attract other males into their domain. i think it was the plains camp males who attacked skorro this year or last year.

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