Tinyo

Tinyo, formerly Male #3, was one of the five Birmingham Boys of South Africa’s Sabi Sand. He had the darkest mane of the brothers and, like Scrapper, a reputation for aggression; followers believed the two might be full brothers.

The Birmingham Boys, also called the Gowrie males, were born in 2010–2011 in the Birmingham Pride of the Timbavati, beside Kruger National Park in South Africa, sons of the older Birmingham males. Around 2014 they moved south, and in 2015 the five drove the ageing Southern Matimba, Hairy Belly and Ginger, out of the northern Sabi Sand, taking the Nkuhuma, Torchwood and Styx prides; the takeover cost the lives of several cubs and lionesses. By late 2017 they also ruled the Tsalala, Mhangeni and Ntsevu prides further south, and they held the Sabi Sand for about seven years, alongside the Mapogos, Majingilane and Matimbas in its history.

From about 2020 Tinyo and Nhenha were the last two Birmingham males. In 2021 Tinyo was wounded and lost condition, and he was last seen patrolling with Nhenha in late October 2021. He died between November and December 2021, at about ten or eleven.