{"id":1341,"date":"2020-12-18T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T19:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2024-07-16T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T19:05:01","slug":"siyabalagas-wala-33-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/siyabalagas-wala-33-female\/","title":{"rendered":"Siyambalagas Wala 3:3 Female (2008-2021) [YF 01\/Jeena]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Siyambala = Tamarind (Tamarindus indica<\/em>)<\/a>, Gas = trees, Wala = waterhole]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siyambalagas Wala 3:3 female was a literal kingmake<\/strong>r for the Yala block 1. She proved herself as a successful mother summa cum laude by raising several cubs up to adulthood and those cubs became exceptionally successful, some even becoming legends in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was one of the most sighted leopards in Yala Block 1 for the decade of 2010-2020. Her territory included the areas of Kotigala, \u016araniya Junction, Debaragas Wala, L\u014dlugas Wala, Siyambalagas Wala, Rathmal Wala, Karawgas Wala, \u016a<\/strong>raniya Lagoon, Buthawa Plains, Maliththankotu Wala, and Welmalkema.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siyambalagas Wala 3:3 female was first photographed in late 2008, as a sub-adult around Karawgas Wala and Palugaswala. But she was seen around L\u014dlugas Wala and Welmalkema areas too. Later, she managed to establish her territory in the same area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was photographed with her first litter of one cub in January 2012, at \u016araniya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2014, she had a litter of three cubs (one male cub and two female cubs) out of which two of them survived to adulthood. The surviving male cub was the Rathmal Wala 4:5 male<\/mark><\/a><\/strong> (Harak Hora\/Cattle Thief) and the female cub was the <\/mark>Rathmal Wala 4:4 female<\/mark><\/a><\/strong> who had established a territory close to her mother’s. [Also check Buthawa 2:3 female<\/mark><\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2017, she had her third known litter of one male cub, which was the \u016araniya Road 3:3 male<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> cub (he didn\u2019t survive).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She showed an interesting behavior in November 2017, she was seen mating with her own son, the Rathmalwala 4:5 male<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> (Harak Hora\/Cattle Thief). This could be a technique for protecting her next litter from the hostile subadult male by convincing him that he is the father of cubs – a common practice among the females during their breeding times.<\/em> Again she was seen on Kotigala, mating with the Weli \u0100ra 2:2 male<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> in April 2018. This time, the Karawgas Wala 4:4 female<\/mark><\/strong> was also there trying to win the same male and the two females had to settle this with a fight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2018, she was photographed with her fourth litter of three cubs around L\u014dlugas Wala. (designated as the L\u014dlugas Wala 3:4 female<\/mark><\/strong><\/a>, L\u014dlugas Wala 2:2 male<\/mark><\/strong><\/a>, and the L\u014dlugas Wala 4:3 male<\/mark><\/strong><\/a>). In the years 2019 and 2020, she was seen with her cubs in her territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though she has been missing since the beginning of 2021, the powerful bloodline she left behind is still active and alive in Block 1 of Yala National Park. She would be remembered as a legendary female who raised several dominant males and successful resident females.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Siyambala = Tamarind (Tamarindus indica), Gas = trees, Wala = waterhole] Siyambalagas Wala 3:3 female was a literal kingmaker for the Yala block 1. She proved herself as a successful mother summa cum laude by raising several cubs up to adulthood and those cubs became exceptionally successful, some even becoming legends in the process. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8169,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/8169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}