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Rita Daggett Wrote: The lions will rest, but in the afternoons they will start to position themselves - just look where the Big Cat Diary vehicles are going! Talking of which - there was a programme on BBC TV recently about lions being in trouble, and they quoted the famous Mara/Big Cat Diary prides as examples. I cant recall the details now, but it was to do with pride structures breaking down with no mature males to take them over. When we were in Zambia last year we were told that the lions in Lower Zambezi were 'in a mess' - there were too many young males; few females, and if the females had cubs, one of the males would kill them, as there wasnt a strong enough 'pride male' to defend them. -- Rita Daggett Mark HomannTHis is indeed a sad threat to many Lions populations in Africa, Large trophy males are taken in a quantity by hunters that is not sustainable to the local populations. *When a new Lion or pair of Lions (brothers will often pair up together to increase thier chances and streght) take over a pride their first instinct is to breed with them females so as to pass on their genes, to do this they must first remove the young of the previous male to make the lioness ovulate. They do this by either killing or chasing off the young animals. * *In a normal situation these new males will have 3 to 4 years to breed with the females ensure that at least one litter of their young will survive, sadly if these males are constantly removed from the pride the females can no longer breed. Lion hunting was infact band in Botswana and i belive in Zambia and there has been some talk of banning it in some areas of Zimbabwe.* -- Chomkuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chomkuti's Profile: http://travelforums.org/forums/member.php?userid=228 View this thread: http://travelforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19172 This post was submitted via http://www.TravelForums.org |
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