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We can now confirm that there are only FOUR Lion Cubs left in the Satara Lion Pride controlled by Casper The White Lion and his Shish Brothers: Casanova, Footloose and Mfowethu.
Whatever happened to the other four or five we do not know?
Watch all the Lionesses of the Pride and the remaining four playful cubs walking down the H6, South-East of Satara Rest-camp in Kruger National Park.
The odds are stacked against a female lion bringing a cub to term!
Part of that is just the harshness of life in the wild; many lion cubs starve, both in infancy and beyond. A female lion has only four teats, so litters larger than four generally won’t all survive. And once cubs have returned to the pride, when food is scarce, they often go unfed, meaning they regularly starve. That explains part of the reason lions go into hiding when giving birth; lionesses will allow any cub in the pride to suckle (they group-mother the cubs), and older cubs are as hungry for mother’s milk as brand-new-babies. If she stayed with the pride to give birth, a lioness’s milk would likely never make it to her own young.
Another major killer of lion cubs is even crueler than starvation: it’s other lions.
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- When you come across a sighting, slowly pull over on the side of the road closest to the animal, but keep a safe distance and turn OFF your engine
- If there are animals in the road, immediately stop at least 20 m from them
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