Cheza and Sala
would have been 9 years old later this year. They
were two of five young males (brothers and cousins) born in 2004 into
the Ridge Pride. All males get kicked out as they approach or pass two
years old and this is what happened here. After a few months they took
over the Ol Kiombo Pride in early 2007. The pride had been without
permanent males for a while but the two Ridge Pride males who sired
Cheza and his gang used to spend some time with them as well as their
own pride.
Two of the five young lions left after a while,
leaving Cheza, Sala and a third lion called Junior. There are pictures
of all three on my website. They were comparatively young to be in
charge of a pride and a lot happened over the ensuing years. The detail
is in a book I’ve at last finished and which is about to be printed.
Notch’s gang eventually took over the Ol Kiombo Pride – they are still
in charge.
Cheza, Sala and Junior stuck together and ended up
with the Maji ya Fisi Pride. In early 2012 Junior was on his own one day
while Cheza and Sala were patrolling the fringes of their old Ol Kiombo
Pride. Junior was cornered by three of Notch’s gang and killed.
Subsequent
to that, Notch’s gang killed seven of the cubs in the Maji ya Fisi
Pride and over-powered Cheza and Sala. Cheza was killed but Sala
escaped, was last seen heading towards Keekorok in the south east of the
Mara but hasn’t been seen since.
All of this is what probably
happened. I say this because in most cases there aren’t people around
witnessing what actually took place and even when there are, sometimes
lions and the other big cats are wrongly identified. That’s why there is
often uncertainty about where famous characters are at any one time;
there may only be a fleeting glance of them and all big cats go outside
their usual territories from time to time, so unless they have
distinctive whisker spot markings (and stay still long enough to match
them up) or scars, mistaken identities do occur.
Thanks to Bob Eveleigh from Jonathan's Scott blog.
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would have been 9 years old later this year. They
were two of five young males (brothers and cousins) born in 2004 into
the Ridge Pride. All males get kicked out as they approach or pass two
years old and this is what happened here. After a few months they took
over the Ol Kiombo Pride in early 2007. The pride had been without
permanent males for a while but the two Ridge Pride males who sired
Cheza and his gang used to spend some time with them as well as their
own pride.
Two of the five young lions left after a while,
leaving Cheza, Sala and a third lion called Junior. There are pictures
of all three on my website. They were comparatively young to be in
charge of a pride and a lot happened over the ensuing years. The detail
is in a book I’ve at last finished and which is about to be printed.
Notch’s gang eventually took over the Ol Kiombo Pride – they are still
in charge.
Cheza, Sala and Junior stuck together and ended up
with the Maji ya Fisi Pride. In early 2012 Junior was on his own one day
while Cheza and Sala were patrolling the fringes of their old Ol Kiombo
Pride. Junior was cornered by three of Notch’s gang and killed.
Subsequent
to that, Notch’s gang killed seven of the cubs in the Maji ya Fisi
Pride and over-powered Cheza and Sala. Cheza was killed but Sala
escaped, was last seen heading towards Keekorok in the south east of the
Mara but hasn’t been seen since.
All of this is what probably
happened. I say this because in most cases there aren’t people around
witnessing what actually took place and even when there are, sometimes
lions and the other big cats are wrongly identified. That’s why there is
often uncertainty about where famous characters are at any one time;
there may only be a fleeting glance of them and all big cats go outside
their usual territories from time to time, so unless they have
distinctive whisker spot markings (and stay still long enough to match
them up) or scars, mistaken identities do occur.
Thanks to Bob Eveleigh from Jonathan's Scott blog.
@allan841121 翻译帝