LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to follow the journey: / @tintswalovirtualsafari After the sad Orpen Male tribute last week, it's wonderful to see their legacy continue with the Mbiri Pride!
Oh what joy to see and learn that the Orpen legacy lives on ♥️♥️♥️. Bless the Tintswalo males for embracing this lovely tiny miracle. Warms me inside 🥰. Wonderful video! Thank you for the amazing news 👏👏👏
Awwwww, nothing can be more magical & poignant than an image of a lioness mom carrying her tiny cub. The mom's tenderness & the baby's vulnerability just tug at your heartstrings knowing how fragile their existence is in a savage reality. Sending so much luv & admiration to all these beautiful, majestic & magnificent beings.
I just cannot handle it. Just when I thought I was able to watch lion cubs without melting, then I see this. Those tiny little “aarrs” & this precious helpless ball of golden fur depending on mama while being carried by her powerful jaws that are so tender & gentle while she carries her baby…& those little legs folding underneath when she’s carrying it! (I heard they do that for a reason, I can’t remember what tho, maybe so it doesn’t drag on the grass??) Anyways this is cuteness waaaayyy off the Richter scale!!
Mum moving cub: to see her leaning down then returning her neck up with a bundle of fluff in her mouth - no words. You guys really capture some amazing moments. Thank you for sharing and long live the Orpen bloodline !! 🦁😻
I do want to thank all involve for this wonderful video and for your time in educating us all out here on our wild life and for the cub or cubs hopefully soon to be I feel they should do well. I feel after watching this video and seeing the reaction of the female lioness bringing out her cub and presenting the cub to these young males they excepted the cub as family and may be a bit related and for the one not he will follow the others lead for he wants family too. Thank you again and for all of YOU out there take care be SAFE. RA 68 HELL FIRE
I find these little furballs a little too small to be with the pride and the Tintswalo males💕.... I hope they will take care of these cubs💕. This is the last offspring of Buddy💔 and Junior💔,I hope to see her grow .... Any news from the female Koppie💕 and cubs💕?I appeal to do research, find out where she is, if she is still alive, as well as the little ones ...
I wonder if this being their natal pride has anything to do with them accepting the cub... For now anyways. If the Tintswalo males stay in that area, do you see the Mbiri's accepting them as their pride males... Or do you think the Mbiri's will move off, and avoid them? If they all eventually have cubs, and can't mate... The males would most likely move on... No?
Hi there, we do believe that due to the males being part of the natal pride is the reason for accepting the cub.We are not sure what the Tintswalo males will do once they become the dominant males of the area if they do. Only time will tell what their next step will be however at the moment they seem to be spending a lot of time with the Mbiri lionesses and also seem to be accepting the cub.
There's no way they would've left Juniors body out there exposed for the scavengers when they know something bad took his life. Then Buddy died 2 days later, he already had a terrible case of TB. It's all so sad .. . Then the Koppies female & cubs, ugh, hopefully they return .. . In a regular situation, my guess is the rangers would leave the body for scavengers, then return & keep the skull .. (I don't think hyenas can eat that part)
Is it the first time you see male lions accepting a cub that is not their own? Or do you think they were led to believe it was theirs? Thank you for the vid.
Did the Orpen males mate with only the older lioness that are probably daughters of the Matimba males or did they also mate with the younger females which are sisters to the Tintswalo males.
Do you think that male lion excepted that cub because he was so young ???and maybe he smelled more like his mother and he wasn’t older in prancing around with other cubs ??maybe the male lion because it was such a young cub adopted him
So the cub from another male is NOT to be killed? Perhaps its siblings were? Perhaps the mother/aunt clipped the male lion over the nose when he tried?
This maybe a Mandela effect bt I recall male loins ALWAYS let their own small cubs eat along side them with no aggression towards the cubs, now I'm seeing many video's of males very aggressive towards even their tiny cubs at a kill, this is a complete contrast to all the videos I've seen of males allowing their own small cubs feed at the kill without aggression, now suddenly there is a whole history of aggression towards males own cubs WTF??? MUST BE a mandela effect, if you wondering what I mean by mandela effect I'd seriously advise you look it up
I know exactly what you mean by the question and the Mandela effect. I’m not sure of the answer but I THOUGHT make lions ate first when before their offspring.
@@juliansydney9819 i always thought the dominant male eats first also , there are some circumstances when some males allow the very young cubs to eat with him especially if its a large prey they caught like a buffalo.
@@r1d166y really? Do You mean that those 2 big males lying down my the mother and suckling cub are the big big brothers of the little baby?? I dont understand, are not these 2 big males taking over the sucking mother's pride? This means the older sons taking over their birth pride?? I'm confused, please explain very clearly and easily. Thank you
@@rosemensah5959 yes they are from the same pride and circumstances of the passing of buddy and jr the orpen males have left mbiri pride without dominant males so the young mbiri males now called tintswalo males have the area free to rule. So they are either brothers or cousins to the cub and son or nephews to the lioness
They are unlikely to attempt to take over their natal pride. Either way, they're currently preoccupied with the Skorro Pride. They wouldn't attempt to dominate two prides that far apart.
@@ieatemcees males do take over multiple prides sometimes long distances from one another but I do agree with u as its rare ( it does happen tho)for any male to take over his natal pride.
@@nickcasper4299 Maybe those two prides are closer together than I think. But the fact that they're just taking over the Skorros and still have control over the Mayambulas to my knowledge... That's a lot of ground to cover for just two lions. Buddy and Junior never tried it. They were dominant over the Skorros, but abandoned them for the Koppies Pride then Mbiri Pride (who have taken over the Koppies former territory). This despite there being no males to challenge them since the demise of the Thanda Impis. Long story short, the person worrying about Shaka and Zig Zag finding the new Mbiri cubs can rest easy. The odds of that happening are very low.
@@ieatemcees again I agree but not with ur logic, just because another coalition didn't try it dont mean another won't and its all about spreading there seed, which means the more the merrier and anything is possible. No one can predict a lions next move but ur right I think right now he can rest easy, right now.
