2 March 2014 - Growing up...
This will be of interest to those of you who were also viewers of WildEarth's live safari drives at the Thornybush Private Nature Reserve last year.
It seems that "our" young Black Dam Male is not only growing up, but has acquired a dominant role over his earlier more dominant buddy, the Timbavati Male! Gareth Long at Waterbuck Game Lodge posted this week that the Black Dam Male has been observed mating with a Lioness from the Monwana (Northern) Pride for days now and that the Timbavati Male has been reduced to just watching from the side lines! This lovely photo shows the Timbavati Male doing just that!
For certain, the young Black Dam Male had better watch out for "Marvin"! We'd hate to think what Marvin might do to him, if he found out the Black Dam Male was playing around with one of his girls.
Waterbuck also posted a photo of a new w h i t e Cape Buffalo calf born last week. They think that there must be a recessive gene in their herds at Thornybush, because this is not the first leucistic calf to have been born there.
2014年3月2日 成长岁月
这对于那些关注去年发生在荆棘丛自然保护区的荒野旅行的观众们来说是很有意义的。
我们年轻的黑色大坝雄狮（Black Dam Male）看起来不仅是长大了，而且获得了更多的主动权超过了他曾经占主导地位的伙伴（伙伴是 Timbavati Male）。住在 Waterbuck Game 旅馆的Gareth，这周贴出通告说Black Dam Male被发现和一只来自 Monwana的母狮在一起。 他看起来很骄傲而Timbavati雄狮却沦为只能在领地边缘徘徊。这张有趣的照片就反映了Timbavati 雄狮正在边线徘徊的场景。
我们可以肯定的是，年轻的 Black Dam雄狮应当小心Marvin！我们
不愿去想像当Marvin发现Black Dam之前正在和他的其中的一只女伴玩耍，他将会对他做出什么。
Waterbuck还贴出了一只上周刚刚诞生的白色的南非黑色大水牛幼崽的图片。观察者们认为在它们的种群中一定存在着一种隐性基因，因为这已经不是第一只在这里出生的白化的水牛了。

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什么时候冒出来的大坝雄狮，在哪个保护区？