Mohawk Avoca

Mohawk, or Mohawk Mane, is one of the three Northern Avoca males of South Africa’s Greater Kruger, named for the crest of his mane. With Blondie he ruled the Nkuhuma and Ximhungwe prides in the northern Sabi Sand.

The Northern Avocas were three brothers born in 2013 in the Avoca Pride of the Timbavati, beside Kruger National Park in South Africa, sons of the Avoca or Giraffe coalition; two older brothers from the same pride became the Southern Avocas. Moving south, the three took the male-less Talamati Pride in early 2018 and, in mid-2018, the Nkuhuma Pride in the northern Sabi Sand, which the Birmingham Boys had left. By 2020 they had split: Dark Mane stayed with the Talamati lionesses while Blondie and Mohawk ruled the Nkuhuma Pride; in 2019 the brothers sired nine Talamati cubs.

After Blondie died in October 2022, Mohawk became the last Northern Avoca. He later left the Sabi Sand for Kruger National Park with two young males of the Nkuhuma Pride, his sons or nephews, and was reported alive with them in November 2025, at about twelve.