Alex Braczkowski

is because these cats are polygamous.

So males will typically cover and have babies with multiple females, maybe three prides, four prides, one big coalition of males.

And what's happening in Queen Elizabeth is that there's not a lot of females.

In fact, the sex ratio there is about one to one when really we want to be seeing one male to two or three females.

So that's where this population is threatened.

The females are getting disproportionately taken out of the system.

probably because of those poisoning events and also human wildlife conflict.

There's cattle that's in this park.

They are... My hypothesis is that they are disproportionately sensitive to poisoning and conflict because often if a carcass is laced, those females will come onto the carcasses and then you're hitting three or four females.

Males might be in another area because, don't forget, males are moving over a much larger area to cover home ranges.

So typically in Queen Elizabeth...

The home ranges of males versus females are about three to four times the size of females.

So, yes, they are disproportionately more sensitive to being targeted.

Yeah, so he's living with his brothers, Taibu, and there's another male there, in pretty much the centre of Queen Elizabeth in a very...

thick and difficult area to get to called Chambura.

So they moved about 80 kilometers south of the poisoning event to try and find females.

And now they've got a territory up there and they're living there and they're monitored.

But yeah, they're just in a very difficult place to get to.

Yeah, I'm hoping to get back there next month to actually try and sort of finish telling more of his story.

And, you know, he's an older boy now.