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Question about the lion cub at the end.


If the mother was to join that pride, wouldn't the male lion kill her cub if she were to return with them?

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most likely yes.

but then again i suspect they bent the story of this documentary. The usage of CGI kinda gave me that impression. and the filming we see towards the end are shuffled a little bit so we may actually see things already past.

my conclusion? : she lost all the cubs, and then went ahead to be accepted in the tribe, which i actually saw happening a few times in a documentary.

all in all i was kinda disappointed, not the best documentary ever.

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When was CGI used?

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I guess that would happen IF she decides to go back. I guess the female lions could stay quite a while with the buffalos on this temporary island. By that time the male lion(s) could have gone elsewhere in search of another pride to take over. The movie gave the impression that Ma di Tau became the leader of this group, so my guess is the others would follow her wherever she decides to go.
I've read that male lions are forced to leave their pride by the age of 2-4, so it won't be too long before the cub grows up old enough to fend for himself. Even if Ma di Tau stays with the group for just a couple of months more, before eventually be forced to leave, the cub won't be such a big liability and will be less and less vulnerable.

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I wonder if there's way to find out. If the males did kill it. They the film crew should have intervened & saved it IMO. Then taken it to an African cat sanctuary.

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Documentary film-makers never intervene in the events they are filming. It is a common creed among them and is seen as very unprofessional. They are filming nature, not changing it so they must keep their distance.

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There is reason for that? Is documentary more important than they being empathic?
So, if we see man dying for all the reasons we should leave it be and maybe document it with camera? It's nature after all. Dog eats dog world. Ironic that we sucha behaviour among people describe using animala.

Lousy excuse. One most outrageous I happen to see. Just imagine what sort of living being you should be to defend stand with "it's unprofessional". So, profession, job, ocuppation is what stops people from being "unprofessionaly" there to help. Did you see film "Nightcrawler"?

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Not necessarily, like all animals that live in social groups, rules can be broken. It has been confirmed that the third surviving cub did grow up to be an adult with a mane and all that. http://www.livethemagicofafrica.com/exploring-the-dynamics-of-the-duba-plains-pride The mother stayed with the pride. The cub with the broken back did not make it.

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Where does it say that the one cub survived. I don't feel like reading the whole thing.

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"When we started this stint two females and two sub adults (the female we called Iris, because she has a black fleck coming out of the iris in her eye) had just killed a baby elephant. They live in Middle Duba and are the bigger lions in the Tsaro pride. North of there we came across Silver Eye and two females and two sub adults, ironically the grown up Ma di Tau male cub is one of them from what we can see. Silver Eye is amazing. Her eye is worse, but she still hunts well, often leading the chase. She isn’t however getting on well with the females (her sisters) of the other sub groups. And then there is Ma di Tau, and surprisingly she has three new cubs of about 6-months old."

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 about the surviving lion cub

It was so sad to see the broken back cub trying to follow her mother when she left, I was expecting her to mercy kill it at least, there was no way that cub was going to make it regardless

If your dream is shattered, pick up the glass

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