In message <9eh200p6i1giu1pa3qn1bkuqgc7jupnsse@4ax.com>
Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
> Liz wrote:
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> >In message
> > Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
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> >> well, that's a truly peculiar explanation. Perhaps it is exactly
> >> the other way round---the lioness left the pride because her
> >> smaller (younger?) cubs would be in danger or at least
> >> disadvantaged.
> >>
> >> In that case their chance of survival is better, but still not
> >> very good.
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> >I won't spoil things by telling you what happened!
>
> Liz,
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> it could take a year until I find out. So if you like to change
> your mind ...
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Hope no one who cares has got higher resolution...
The next day the two cubs had survived, and eventually were reunited with
their mother, who had inexplicably left them for a long time apparently out
in the open.
Simon was giving a warm fuzzy ending by saying they had survived this crisis
and he felt confident that they would survive now. Given that they were
still pretty tiny, I think he's going soft in his middle age!
Mind you, I'm getting as bad.
The pride is now really big (high twenties) but there is only one male lion,
who while they were filming was already being challenged by two young
pretenders. I did have this anthropomorphic thought that if he got beaten
and cast out of the pride, he might take up with Bibi, and protect the cubs,
who are apparently his anyway. That's pretty 'warm & fuzzy' too.
Anyway, there's to be some sort of follow-up programme on IIRC 27th Jan.
Slainte
Liz
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