steamtrainfan wrote:Hi JK. I had not thought of it in this way so only having 1 pack is not good news.JoeKing wrote:Correct, at one stage the pack was very big and they split up, then the numbers dwindled and PB was left with a single pack with 5 Adults, Glad that they have been successfully breeding, but some new blood must be brought in. Else we are going to end up with inbreeding and that could cause the animals to be weak and the pack to maybe decrease in size again.
The other bit of info I was told by a game drive jockey was that this pack spend their time going around the perimeter of the park, spending about two weeks at each den. In this way they use the fence to trap their prey. We must have been very fortunate that their den must have been near Manyane Gate for the time we were there.
very true, i remember at one stage they were seen early morning at Bakgatla for a while, then we started camping at Bakgatla and then they were being seen at Manyane. .
One interesting "fact" i heard on a game drive, was that apparently, the lions are culled. Private hunters come and shoot a lion for a trophy.
not sure who true this is, but yes there are too many lions and its negativley affecting the Brown Hyena and cheetah populations.
If these profit made from these trophies went into buy farms to complete the corridor to madikwe i wouldn't have a problem with it, as the hunting proceeds are going straight back into conservation, and with PB not housing any spotted hyena and only four prides of lions i dont see that the lion population is under any threat. IMHO they will make more revenue from a American hunter then selling the lion to another game farm.