8 years ago

Sensitive viewers should avoid watching this video.
The Othawa Lion pride catch a rival lioness (Long Tail Ximhungwe female) and break her spine. The Majingilane male lions are also involved.
The Long Tail Ximhungwe lioness was the last adult in the pride and had been trying to keep the remaining sub-adults away from the Majingilanes
The fight is a territorial battle as the Othawa pride wanted to extend their territory due to having new cubs. Having watched the Ximhungwe lioness grow up from a tiny cub this was a very emotional scene for me and it took a long time for me to actually decide to re-watch and edit this clip. Unfortunately all the movement of the lights affected the camera focus but despite the poor footage it's still an important piece of the story of these prides. Male lions often fight over territory but it is less common for the lionesses to do so, this was the second lioness taken out by the Othawa pride in the space of a month, reducing the pride to just the four sub-adults. You can see that the Othawa lionesses had already crippled the Ximhungwe lioness before the males got involved, at that point she would already have been too seriously injured to survive.
This was obviously not the outcome I was expecting when I started the 'Following The Pride' and 'Rebuilding The Othawa Pride' series...
Filmed in the Sabi Sand Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa

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