This group hasn't had any breeding here for five or six years which is quite a shame. At least they have a new male 'Kasanga'. Was he still separated from the main pride?
I didn't mean the breed. I meant with their current group and their descendants. Some of the older females 'Gemma' and 'Tambi' are offspring from the old males 'Legs Diamond' and 'Romeo' (?).
This group hasn't had any breeding here for five or six years which is quite a shame. At least they have a new male 'Kasanga'. Was he still separated from the main pride?
Is the old house still their? I'm worried that the new male hasn't mixed successfully with the full pride yet. When Woburn did a press release on him it stated he'd been introduced to a couple of females but not the three castrated males. The old male 'Shane' died last year and the three castrated males are his sons, does this automatically make one or all of them the pride male even if they don't have a mane?
The pride male, is generally the one who does all of the breeding, just because they have no manes, they also cannot breed, also female lions are a strong force to reckon with, so the fact that Woburn has no pride male, isn't too much of an issue, as there are no cubs who may need a role model as such, so the group of non breeding siblings and so on, is okay for the moment.
Trying to introduce Kasanga, may take a long time, as it is something that if works well, may last the next fifteen years or so, so they do need to get it right, and with the added nuisance of castrated males, they may be trying to get them rehomed (which would not be a bad idea) or it makes the introductions a lot slower. Also kasanga is still very young as far as pride males go, so they may be waiting for him to mature a bit before they fully introduce him, as a rule introducing lions into breeding groups like this may take a while to sort out, but they aren't generally picky.
And from what I have seen in pictures, the old house has been demolished, before it fell down!
