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Farewell to the Hip Scar Male 别了,疤臀
by James Tyrrell
On the 5th of this month we ran a post reporting the impending demise of the Hip Scar male from the Majingilane coalition. Seen in very poor condition, we didn’t see how he could recover from the almost skeletal state he was in, and sadly, within ten days, he would indeed be dead
His carcass was found in the Western Sector of the Sabi Sands, partially consumed by scavengers, thus making him the first of this powerful coalition to die
The Majingilane came roaring into the Sabi Sands from the Kruger Park in the middle parts of 2010, ushering in a new era in the wake of four years of Mapogo control. I won’t purport to discuss what happened prior to late 2010, as I wasn’t here then, but suffice it to say the Majingilane have been the coalition that have defined the lion dynamics during the six years I have spent at Londolozi.

在本月的第五篇博文中，我们讲述了保卫者联盟雄狮疤臀面临死亡的处境。我们看到他情况很糟，并不认为它可以从骨瘦嶙峋的状态中恢复，让人悲伤的，不到十天他真的离开了。
他的尸体在撒比森的西部被发现，一部分已经被食腐动物吃掉，这使他成为这个强大联盟第一头离去的雄狮。
在2010年中，保卫者雄狮联盟从克鲁格公园来到撒比森，在统治了四年的坏男孩联盟的尾迹，他们的吼叫声引领了一个新的时代的到来。因为我不在场，我并不打算讨论在2010年之前发生过什么，但是可以这样说，在我在Londolozi的六年时间里，保卫者联盟决定和主导了狮子的生态系统。

Despite the Dark Maned and Scar Nose males almost certainly being the dominant pair of the four, almost always claiming first mating rights when it came to lionesses in oestrus, it was nevertheless the Hip Scar male, with his rich tawny coat and golden eyes, that caught many people’s attention.

尽管暗鬃和疤鼻几乎肯定是四兄弟中占主导的两只，然而那个在母狮发情时几乎总是可以首先获得交配权的却总是疤臀，加上他金黄色的眼睛和黄褐色的鬃毛，引起了好多人的关注。


We talk a lot about anthropomorphizing, and how it can lead us to make false conclusions about animal behaviour, but without actually humanising certain of his behavioural traits, it is certainly within the bounds of acceptability to say that the temperament of the Hip Scar male was different to the rest. One doesn’t need to go into full detail, but the way he related to the various females and cubs from the prides which the Majingilane controlled seemed to lack the aloofness that the other males would display. Whilst the Dark Maned male would generally choose to lie a little bit away from the rest, it would not be uncommon to find the Hip Scar male in and amongst any cubs that happened to be around, indulging them in their antics.

我们谈论了很多人性化，以及人性化是怎样导致我们对于动物的行为作出错误的结论。事实上对于他的一些行为并没有赋予人格化，但是可以肯定地在可接受的范围内说疤臀的性格与其它的兄弟不一样。不需要探究全部的细节，单是他与联盟统治下的不同狮群的雌狮和幼崽的相处模式就不像他的兄弟们表现出的那样冷漠。休息时暗鬃一般都会选择与狮群成员保持一定的距离，但是孩子们与疤臀玩闹在一起其乐融融沉浸其中的景象却是屡见不鲜。


I can’t really speak for his last two years in which he spent most of his time away from Londolozi, but I don’t imagine things would have changed much.
The hierarchy within a male lion coalition is largely established form a young age. Some cubs tend to be more boisterous than others, pushing their siblings away from kills and dominating rough games, and already from when they are a few months old male cubs can be forming a pecking order. Male cubs from different litters will often leave a pride together, forced out by their own fathers or new males, and in numbers lie strength, so forming a larger coalition gives them a greater chance of survival as well as a greater chance of taking over their own territory in years to come. Males from the older litters in these groups, although similar sized in maturity, would have had an extended period during sub-adulthood in which the size differences between them and the younger individuals would have been more pronounced, and this period most likely serves to reinforce the established hierarchy.
The Hip Scar male’s status within his own coalition may well have been a product of his youth. Quite possibly he was from a younger litter, and was always fated to occupy the bottom rung.


对于他不在Londolozi的近两年我不能这样说，但是我想他不会有太大变化。
雄狮联盟的等级更多在他们年轻的时候就形成了。一些幼崽比其它的更加霸道，在进食时会推开他们的兄妹或者在一些粗暴的游戏中占尽优势，在小雄狮们几个月时他们之间的等级顺序便开始建立。不同窝的小雄狮们往往被他们的父亲或者入侵雄狮一起驱逐狮群，数量多力量大，组成一个强大的联盟会显著增加他们成功生存和在未来几年中夺取他们自己的领地的概率。联盟中较年长的雄狮，虽然成年后体型相当，但是在亚成年一段持续的时间中他们与较年轻的兄弟们的体型差异会很显著，而兄弟间建立的地位很可能就是在这段时期被加强和巩固的。
在保卫者联盟中，疤臀的情况很可能是他的相对年轻造成的。他很可能来自较小的那窝，所以被注定总是有着最低的等级。


Whether or not the Hip Scar male was lowest on the Majingilane pecking order or not is actually unimportant. As a lion, he was spectacular. Beautiful, majestic, and dare I say it, photogenic.
With his pronounced limp and tag-along-at-the-back status he might not have been seen in the same light as the other apparently more dominant brothers in his coalition, but I personally saw him charging into the fray to take on intruders that threatened his territory, and without him, the Majingilane could almost certainly not have held territory for as long as they have (almost seven years in the reserve).
Call him a vital link in the coalition’s chain, call him the weak link, call him what you will; the fact remains that we have lost an impressive and beautiful animal that served for years as an ambassador for his species. It is in our nature to grieve, but we can take solace from the fact that this magnificent wild lion died from natural causes, and is immortalised in countless images and photo albums around the world.
Gone but never forgotten.
疤臀是不是保卫者联盟中地位最低的雄狮真的不那么重要，作为一个雄狮，他真的非常棒。他漂亮，宏伟，请允许我说，他还很上相。
严重的瘸行和总是跟在后面的状态使得他无法像狮群中其它更占主导地位的三个兄弟那样引人注目，但是我亲眼看到过他冲上去与那些威胁到他领土的入侵者进行对抗，没有他，保卫者联盟几乎不可能统治他们的领土这么久（在保护区已有近七年）。在这个联盟的关系链中，说他是至关重要的一环，或说他是无关紧要的一环，随你怎么说他；事实无法改变，我们失去了这只出色的并引人瞩目的为他的物种代言了多年的动物。悲伤，是我们的天性使然，但是让我们安慰的是，是自然夺去了这只壮丽的野生雄狮的生命，而遍布世界无数的图片和照片将使他不朽。
离去，但永远不会被忘记。

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