This is the story of two remarkable – and extremely rare – wild white lion cubs on their journey to adulthood. Both are female, sisters born as white as snow in May 2009 in South Africa’s Kruger Park. Growing up in this vast, wild wilderness they must not only overcome the same survival challenges that all young lion cubs face, they must also overcome the threats their high visibility brings.
In the African bush anything unusual stands out strongly and is often eliminated by eagle-eyed predators. Will our cubs survive? The odds are stacked against them – 80% of all newborn lion cubs don’t make it to adulthood. The most important advantage they have is character. They are feisty. They fight for what they want – a very important quality for a lion, and especially for lion cubs which have a high mortality rate. They’re members of a small family pride, consisting of their tawny-coloured mother and her sister, who has two young tawny male cubs of her own. The two adult lionesses must protect their cubs well in order to raise them successfully through their critical first two years of life.
The challenge facing the two mothers is enormous. Soon after their cubs’ birth, the father disappeared, possibly killed by rivals, leaving his pride to fend for themselves. The mothers fled their territory, to avoid any adult male lions that could take over and surely kill their cubs. So long as the lionesses have cubs they won’t come into estrous, but by killing the cubs the males will ensure the females are ready to mate sooner, and give birth to their own offspring. This film follows this lion family on their journey through the Kruger wilderness as they struggle to survive and avoid danger. Without a doubt the cubs’ highly visible white coats increases the risk. The last white lions cubs to be born here some years ago were killed by another lion pride before they reached six months. When you’re a white lion cub, hiding in the grass is impossible.
To keep their pride alive our two lionesses must also teach their cubs how to hunt. This film follows their efforts, and show just how crucially important the parents skills and characters are in turning their helpless cubs into little hunters. Amazingly, these lionesses specialise in hunting Cape buffalo – one of the strongest and most combative of prey. This film features these hunts and shows our cubs getting first hand lessons in the skills of hunting.
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I could live in the African bush inside a heavily defended fortress, and a personal detail following my every step!❤️
I love the footage. Especially the river filling up – can’t imagine how long you waited for that ! ❤ great doco
white lions black leopards and king cheetahs are members of the feline family
Nice 👍
What a wonderful story about these lions.
Two white cubs. WOW that is so good now that have to survive. Keep the hunting humans away.
Where's part 2
Hello! Thanks for this release video. Nice video. Good Luck! All Peace! With all Respect:❤
What happened to them now? It's already 2023, and this story was 2012, it has been 11 years.
Ik vind het echt geweldig hoe als gaat veral de leeuwen❤❤❤❤
Anyone knows the name of the music at the end?
Lions are my fav between hyenas as well.❤ Nature