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November 2009

Marthly pride: (5 sightings)

This pride has in the last few months started making more and more appearances on Mala Mala. At one stage we went several years without seeing them but that has finally broken, this shift in territory slightly back to Mala Mala can be attributed to the Mlowathi males who are also dominant over this pride. With the Mlowathi males spending much of their time on Mala Mala the pride has shifted to try and still remain under their protection especially due to the fact they have young cubs. The males act as bodyguards and will actively chase out all intruders from their lands and so this pride is trying to take advantage of this protection. This all bodes well for us as we get to see yet another generation of cubs raised and with their fathers being so dominant they stand an excellent chance.

October 2009

Marthly pride: (9 sightings)

In at least the last eighteen months this pride has not been seen, but they have made a return to Mala Mala. The two Mlowathi males are dominant of them and are the fathers of their eight cubs and so when the two males made the buffalo kill on our northwestern border it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when this pride showed up. The three females, two older sisters and one young female are all in superb condition even the female with the missing tail is looking healthy. And they have cubs, eight of them all around four months in age. Lets hope in the future we get to see more of this pride as the cubs grow and their fathers continue to dominate.

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