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Mapula Lodge Lion Greeting Video

Monday, 9 August 2010 15:07 by BillGiven

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog.

The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. The Mapula Boys, a coalition of three massive male lions, have provided lots of the highlights. Click on a link below to see all of the videos from the Mapula Lodge lions.

Mapula Lodge Lion Greeting Video

My favorite video of the Mapula Lodge lion video set is longer than usual video that captures the bonds of brotherhood that you can see between male lions in a coalition. You get a sense for their bond as they like to maintain physical contact with one another and I especially enjoy seeing their head rubs – the equivalent of a lion hug.

This closeness is essential to form the imposing team that is needed to hold a quality territory. Following their greeting you get eye to eye with a lion as he slakes his thirst and the Boys head out to hunt buffalo.

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August 11. 2010 18:02

Why, in this case, are the males hunting? I thought females usually do that.

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August 13. 2010 08:11

Thanks for your question ScienceGuy.

This particular trio of males are very good hunters of buffalo. Early lion research was all done in the open plains systems of East Africa and there the lions tend to focus on wildebeest and zebra where stalking is important and more difficult for large, conspicous males to be successful so they often sit out the hunt. That has led to the incorrect statement that females do all the hunting.

In Southern Africa many prides specialize in larger prey such as buffalo and in such cases brute force is often more important than stealthy approach so the males often participate and can certainly hunt on their own. The simplistic females do all the hunting philosophy also overlooks that males are evicted from their prides, usually at around 2 1/2 years of age and then they have to make it on their own for a couple years as nomads until they challenge and eventually win a pride of there own. Certainly lions are master scavengers but during these couple of years with no company of females these males have to do their own hunting.

Bill

August 16. 2010 23:28

Another great video. It is unusual to get a bachelor group like this hunting on film.

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September 8. 2010 23:12

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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September 9. 2010 09:31

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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September 9. 2010 21:45

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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September 10. 2010 08:08

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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September 10. 2010 15:25

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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September 10. 2010 18:58

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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September 10. 2010 22:28

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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September 13. 2010 21:15

I am finally catching up on some of my video, thanks to hiring my niece Kelsey over her summer break at college. We have many new video clips being uploaded and I will introduce some of them in our blog. The first set of videos is a four part series of videos from September and October trips to Mapula Lodge in Botswanas Okavango Delta.

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