Lion | MINI-POG ✯ The Injured & Outcast Mapogo Son Of Mr. T

✪ The Mapogo Lion story: "The little son Mini-pog" (6th December 2011)
⇢ Mini-pog vs Ximhungwe pride & Mr. T - An unusual accident happened at Inyati Game Lodge. Mr. T in the role as a great protector of his son Mini-pog. It happened in the morning, while watching the pride doing what they do best, sleep. Abruptly one Ximhungwe lioness, the short-tailed female began to stalk something we all could not see. She then jumped up and ran and disappeared. We followed to where we could hear commotion of fighting lions. We discovered that found that the 13-month old cub who lost its mother and had been wondering around on his own for the last few months, had finally found the pride. Surprisingly and unfortunately it was not the happy family reunion that we expected and hoped for, as the lioness started attacking the youngster. What happened next was really remarkable though; Mapogos never cease to amuse. The Mapogo male with short Mohawk mane known to be the unfriendly one to the cubs and all other lions came in and fought off the lionesses and then stood over the youngster to protect it against the aggressive female. Many of us who think we know him well would have never expected him to that. The rejection of the cub by her own pride did, however suggest that his future is very uncertain now, one lioness at least clearly didn’t want to accept him back in the pride.
The mother of Mini-pog unfortunately died after getting caught in a snare and he and his also young brother struggled to get back into the pride. But without the protect of his mother one of the Mini-pogs was killed by the Dewane male leopard and the other, despite Mr T Mapogo protecting him, didn't get enough food from the pride and died.

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