Disturbing Footage Of Lions Fighting To The Death (Not For Sensitive Viewers)

This video shows the horrific death of the last adult Ximhungwe lioness, killed by the Othawa pride and Majingilane males. The fight is a territorial battle as the Othawa pride wanted to extend their territory due to having new cubs. Having watched the Ximhungwe lioness grow up from a tiny cub this was a very emotional scene for me and it took a long time for me to actually re-watch and edit this clip. Lions often fight to the death over territory but it is less common for the lionesses to do so, this was the second lioness killed by the Othawa pride in the space of a month, reducing the pride to just the four sub-adults. You can see that the Othawa lionesses had already crippled the Ximhungwe lioness before the males got involved, at that point she would already have been too seriously injured to survive.
This was obviously not the outcome I was expecting when I started the 'Following The Pride' and 'Rebuilding The Othawa Pride' series...
Filmed at Idube Game Reserve in South Africa ()
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