풍성한 갈기를 지닌 암사자들. 숫사자가 아닙니다.

[대 박]

 검은 갈기의 암사자

 수사자가 아닌 암사자가 뛰는 사진입니다.

윗사진 모두 갈기달린 암사자 입니다.

오카방고 삼각주에서 발견된 녀석으로써 촬영자의 말을 조금 보자면

She has recently been observed by the guides at Mombo behaving in an altogether ‘male’ fashion – attempting to mount one of the females in her pride. Shortly after this, her pride was involved in a battle over a buffalo carcass with another larger pride, the Mporota lions. Mmamoriri held ten other lionesses at bay for four hours with pure aggression and bravado- a situation that only changed with the arrival of the two Jao Boys, the males who dominate the Mporota pride. Once they were there, they immediately attacked her as a male usurper and she was forced to retreat.

이 녀석이 다른 무리와 버팔로의 시체를 놓고 싸움이 붙었는데 참고로.. 이녀석의 무리는 western pride 입니다.

이 갈기달린 암사자는 갈기를 이용해 10마리 암사자와 4시간동안 대치하는 허세를 부렸다 합니다.

즉 수컷인척 허세부린거죠.

다만 이 허세는 상대편 무리의 수사자 2마리가 오자 갈기달린 암사자는 도주하였다 합니다.

혹시 의심하실 분이 있을까봐..

거짓말이 아니라 진짜 입니다.

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/09/weird-wild-rare-maned-lionesses-explained/

물론 그래도 못 믿으시는 분은 있으실거라 봅니다. 그래서 증거 사진을..

네 엉덩이를 보시면..수컷의 그것이 없습니다.

그리고 90년대 후반 목격된 마르티나 라는 녀석등..

 오카방고 삼각주에 이런녀석이 한두마리가 아니더군요.

Nature, not nurture: The lioness has developed the characteristic long hair because of a hormone imbalance

But look a little closer and it is actually a lioness who has developed the characteristic long locks because of a hormone imbalance.

This has meant that for years other members of the pride shunned the lioness, forcing her to wander the plains of the Okavango Delta in Botswana alone.

이 암사자는 수컷 같은 외모 때문에 무리에서 받아들여지지 못하고 혼자 살다가

최근에 무리에 합류했다고 합니다.

이렇게 된 원인은 호르몬 이상 때문인데 배아 상태에서 어긋난것 같다고 하는군요.

윗 사진의 녀석과 동일 개체일수도 있겠지만 갈기 색깔이 확연히 틀려서..

원문 링크도 첨부 합니다.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2221401/Okavango-Delta-Meet-transexual-lioness-thats-growing-mane.html

다른 녀석도 올립니다.

앞서 언급한 1990년대 후반에 목격되었던 마르티나 라는 갈기달린 암사자 입니다.

 마르티나의 모습입니다.

위의 2사진들은 마르티나인지 다른 갈기달린 암사자인지는 잘 모르겠습니다.

Mombo's Maned Lionesses

Sighting: Mombo's Maned Lionesses
Location: Mombo, Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango
Date: 24 June 2008
Observer: Tony Reumerman

During the late 1990s through until 2002, a rather peculiar lioness and her pride used the immediate vicinity of Mombo camp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. 'Martina', as she was named, was a huge muscular lioness with a mane resembling that of a four year old male lion (pictured at top). The remainder of the pride consisted of another (maneless) lioness and her two cubs. Martina herself was never seen to conceive and give birth to cubs even though she was observed mating on one occasion.

This pride never managed to successfully settle down in the area. This was most likely due to the high density of lions and the intense competition amongst male lions for territorial control. As an apparent young male with a pride, Martina was regularly harassed and hounded by marauding male lion coalitions and eventually left the area, the pride moving to the south and west never to be seen again.

So what caused this genetic abnormality?

Over the years of her presence around Mombo many a debate about her genetic makeup was held at the dinner table and fireside. Was this an expression‎ of gene carried on the x chromosome? Was this merely a freak mutation, never to be seen again? Was this a result of genetic mutation due to intense in-breeding? Was this a recessive gene able to be transferred to offspring?

Whatever the reason, her genetics doomed Martina to reproductive failure and caused her pride to be forced out of the area. By the same token however she was a superb hunter and was not harassed by spotted hyenas as a result of their 'perception' that she was an adult male lion.

The mystery was never solved and the story of Martina became history.

A few years later, during the winter of 2005, Alex Mazunga, one of the Mombo guides located a new, previously unknown pride on the western edge of Mombo Island. He notified me on radio and as they had just pulled down a buffalo I was rather excited and responded. On arrival I noticed that they were extremely nervous and definitely unknown to myself and the Mombo guides. We gave them the rather prosaic name of 'The Western Pride'.

Months passed by and the pride slowly settled down, conducting their hunting and mating activities without being bothered by us. There was absolutely nothing peculiar about the pride and they become regular stars on the Mombo game drives, producing offspring in the summer of 2005/06 and settling down in the immediate vicinity of the camp, focusing on killing buffalo in and around the channel. They have occupied this niche since then, avoiding the territorial conflicts of the larger Moporota and Mathata Prides that have continued over much of 2007/08.

During April of this year Brandon Kemp and I were out on a safari and located the pride snoozing very close to the camp. As per usual I was snapping away. The pride were casually interacting as they were awakening. Something was wrong. Before I could put my finger on it, Brandon said "Hey, did you see that?"

I was stunned! The young 'male' lion that had just walked past the land rover sported no obvious male genitalia! 'It' settled down next to another lioness facing us. We quickly hauled out the binoculars and noticed that this cat had a small face like a lioness, an apparent large body and a well developed mane of a two to three year old male lion. Wow! How could this have been overlooked in a regularly seen pride for so long? And even more so what was this all about? Just as we were absorbing all of this, we noticed that the other two lionesses had small manes!

The discovery was overwhelming: The potential questions and answers, even more so. Are these lionesses related to Martina, or rather just products of the same circumstances that bred her?

It is impossible at this stage to answer these questions, but we look forward to many more sightings and fireside debates in the years to come.

마르티나 라는 갈기달린 암사자는 90년대후반~2002년도 까지 관찰된듯 하며 그 이후엔 아마 실종된듯 합니다.

이 녀석은 외모 덕분에 하이에나로 부터 괴롭힘을 받지 않았다 합니다.

그러나 대신 마르티나는 수사자들에게 지속적으로 괴롭힘을 당했다 합니다.

그래서 마르티나의 무리는 남서쪽으로 이동했고 다시는 보이지 않았다 합니다.

참고로 마르티나는 새끼가 없었고 수사자와 짝짓기를 하는장면이
한번 목격되었다 하는군요.

그리고 마르티나의 실종후 2008년에 놀라운 발견을 하는데

western pride 에서 다른 갈기달린 암사자를 발견 하였다 합니다.

이녀석은 수사자 같은 갈기와, 큰 덩치를 지니고 있었지만 머리크기는 작았다 하며

이녀석 외에도 다른 암사자 2마리가 작은 갈기를 지니고 있었다 합니다.

해당 암사자의 2년후 모습 입니다.

08 년에 발견되었고 해당 사진은 2010년에 찍힌것.

같이 발견된 다른 암사자 한마리는 보이지 않는다 합니다.

이 암사자 역시 갈기와 덩치가 4살난 수사자와 비슷한 수준이라고 하는군요.

여기에 언급된 갈기달린 암사자들은 모두 오카방고 습지에서 나온 녀석들입니다.

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호르몬때문인가?

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자~털복숭이씨 들어오세요~