That and a degree of local knowledge are about it John.... but it's sometimes possible to take an old male or males out of a pride if you're sure there are no small cubs in the pride. - Then you just let another one take over and the adolescents will move off to become nomadic until it's their turn to move in and take over for a while.

I guess another way to tell if a lone male is holding a pride is if he looks like he's been nagged a lot!!!!

Going back to that Lion in my pic - it looks a bit big...... hope I haven't caused a bandwidth problem..... if I have, please let me know and I'll reduce it. Guess I should have mentioned that third eye is courtesy of my .500 Jeffery. (the client asked me to put in an insurance shot as it was so close to camp..... well, in it actually!)