Weekly Big 5 Sightings 25 – 31 December 2023

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Nhenhe, the young male leopard, photo by Nicholas Greeff

Monday, 25 December 2023

(28°C 15 mm Rain)

  • Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of five lioness stationary on Wetpatch Open Area.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard stationary on Airport Link.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard stationary on top of a termite mound east of Shidula Road.
  • Talamati Breakaway pride of lions consisting of three sub adults hunting zebra at Boundary Pan.

Tuesday, 26 December 2023

(23°C 57 mm Rain)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard stationary on Guarri Central East of the Elephant Plains Driveway.
  • One African elephant bull on Sawmill junction Elephant Carcass.
  • One Talamati breakaway sub adult lion feeding on a zebra kill with one of the Talamati male lions on Bushcamp West.

Wednesday, 27 December 2023

(20°C 11mm Rain)

  • One Talamati male lion feeding on a zebra kill on Bushcamp West.
  • One African elephant bull feeding on the Othawa Boundary.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard hunting dwarf mongoose on Horseshoe West.

Kambula male lion, phot by Nicholas Greeff

Thursday, 28 December 2023

(24°C 1 mm Rain)

  • Breeding herd of eighteen African elephants feeding north along KBR.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard stalking impala at Rulani Open.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard and Nhene, the male leopard stationary on Shidula Road.
  • Talamati Breakaway pride of lions consisting of two sub adult male lions stationary north of the Elephant Plains Simbambili Cutline.
  • Elephant Plains spotted hyena den active with one adult and six pups.

Friday, 29 December 2023

(25°C)

  • One Nkuhuma lioness stationary at The Rocks.
  • One Talamati male lion feeding of a blue wildebeest kill at Sawmill junction Drongo North.
  • One African elephant bull mobile east from the northern side of the Elephant Plains Airstrip.
  • Elephant Plains spotted hyena den active with one adult and six pups.
  • Talamati Breakaway sub adult lioness found deceased with a spotted hyena feeding on her carcass east of Bushcamp West.
  • One Kambula male lion and one Nkuhuma lioness stationary on a blue wildebeest kill on Sawmill north of Drongo North.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard stationary on a termite mound northern side of Elephant Plains Airstrip.
  • A breeding herd of twenty-five African elephants feeding on the northern side of Elephant Plains Airstrip.

Saturday, 30 December 2023

(30°C 1mm Rain)

  • Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of two lioness stationary on Arathusa Main Road east of Big Dam Link South.
  • A breeding herd of twenty African elephants feeding at Sherley’s Crossing.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard mobile east from Arathusa Main Road towards the Manyaleti river.
  • The spotted hyena den of Elephant Plains was active with four adults and six pups.
  • Timbavati, the male leopard mobile north from Jacana Dam.
  • A pack of four African wild dog’s mobile east from Arathusa Safari Airstrip.
  • The Kruger male lion and four Torchwood lioness mobile north on the western Manyaleti Boundary junction Buffelshoek East West Cutline.

Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, photo by Nicholas Greeff

Sunday, 31 December 2023

(27°C)

  • The Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of seven lioness and one sub adult male stationary on MalaMala a Main Road south of Arathusa Safari Driveway.
  • One Tumbela male lion stationary on a termite mound on the Londolozi boundary east of Big Dam Link South.
  • A breeding herd of twenty African elephants mud bathing at Serengeti Open Area.

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