Weekly Big Five Sightings 5 – 11 August 2024

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Langa’s cub. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Monday, 5 August 2024

(23°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard feeding on a impala kill at Serengeti open junction with KBR, with Tiyani the female leopard watching him from a distance.
  • On Black Dam male lion with two Nkuhuma lioness sleeping a Sixteenth Crossing.
  • Lunga, the female leopard with one cub feeding on a steenbok kill on MMM South.

Tuesday, 6 August 2024

(27°C)

  • The Four Kambula male lions, feeding on a cape buffalo kill at the junction of Central Road and Drakensburg.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard finishing off his impala kill at the junction of Serengeti Open and KBR Road.
  • A breeding herd of fifteen African elephants drinking at Tamboti Dam.
  • Lunga, the female leopard with one cub feeding on a steenbok kill on MMM South.
  • Two honey badgers, resting on Mariken drive.

Wednesday, 7 August 2024

(26°C)

  • Tiyani, the female leopard mobile East from Sawmill.
  • A breeding herd of twenty African elephants, drinking at Elephant Plains open area.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard mobile North from Marula Bolt Fourway.

Kambula male feeding on a cape buffalo kill. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Thursday, 8 August 2024

(32°C)

  • A breeding herd of twenty African elephants, drinking at Big Dam.
  • The four Kambula male lions, sleeping North of Gowrie Dam.
  • A breeding herd of ten African elephants, feeding along Gowrie Cutline.
  • A breeding herd of approximately two hundred cape buffalo, feeding on Long Pole East.

Friday, 9 August 2024

(39°C)

  • Nhenhe, the young male leopard sleeping on Safari Donga South.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard mobile North from Red Dam.
  • A breeding herd of ten African elephants, feeding at Mehluane Road.
  • One cape buffalo bull, feeding on Josie Road.
  • Six of the Nkuhuma lioness, resting on Elephant Plains open area.
  • A breeding herd of eight African elephants, mobile East from Elephant Plains Flood Plains.

Saturday, 10 August 2024

(32°C)

  • A breeding herd of eight African elephants feeding North of EP Manyaleti Crossing.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard and Nhenhe, the young male leopard with a juvenile greater kudu kill North of Impala Open.
  • One Kambula male lion and one lioness stationary on Wattle Way.
  • Cara, the female leopard stationary ay Jacana Dam.
  • Two African elephant bulls mobile North from Jacana Dam.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard mobile East from Bush Camp Pan.

Xidulu, the female leopard. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Sunday, 11 August 2024

(36°C)

  • Four Kambula ale lions and one lioness stationary at Jacana Dam.
  • A breeding of ten African elephants on Arathusa Main Road.

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