weekly Big Five Sightings 2 – 8 September 2024

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Tortoise Pan. Photo by Jordan Delvecchio

Monday, 2 September 2024

(28°C)

  • Two Kambula male lions feeding on a hippo carcass North of Jacana Dam.
  • One Kambula male lion stationary at Elephant Plains Open Area.
  • Breeding herd of sixteen African elephants drinking at Simbamili Dam.
  • Cara, the female leopard stationary at Jacana Dam.

Tuesday, 3 September 2024

(28°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mating with Tiyani, the female leopard North of Grizzly Bear Crossing.
  • Two African elephant bulls at Serengeti Open.
  • Breeding herd of approximately four hundred Cape buffalo drinking at Gowrie Dam.
  • Ntsumi, the female leopard mobile South from Twin Dams.

Wednesday, 4 September 2024

(31°C)

  • One Kambula male lion mating with an Imbali lioness at One Eye Pan Open Area,
  • Breeding herd of approximately four hundred Cape buffalo mobile North on Nyala Road South.
  • Three Kambula male lions and two Imbali lioness feeding on an African elephant carcass on Hardekool Access.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard and Nhenhe, the young male leopard fighting with Tiyani, the female leopard over an impala kill at Pungwe Crossing.

 

Giraffe. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Thursday, 5 September 2024

(33°C)

  • Two lioness stationary in from of Arathusa Safari Lodge.
  • One Plains Camp male lion stationary at Wetpatch Open Area.
  • Four Kambula male lions and one Imbali lioness feeding on the African elephant carcass on Hardekool Access.
  • Breeding herd of fourteen African elephants drinking at Baobab Dam.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile East from Simbambili Dam.

Friday, 6 September 2024

(30°C)

  • Nhenhe, the young male leopard stationary on Seef’s Pan Road junction First Windmill Road.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard mobile North from Quarantine Clearing.
  • Breeding herd of approximately five hundred Cape buffalo drinking at Jacana Dam.

Saturday, 7 September 2024

(30°C)

  • Four Kambula male lions stationary at Jacana Open Area.
  • Three male Cheetah mobile North from Buffelshoek Airstrip.
  • Three African elephant bulls feeding on Dolerite Road.
  • Nhenhe, the young male leopard stationary at Seef’s Pan.
  • Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of six lioness and one sub adult male stationary at Quarantine Clearing.
  • Torchwood pride of lions consisting of three lioness feeding on a waterbuck kill North East of Khaya Manzi Dam.
  • Breeding herd of approximately two hundred Cape buffalo feeding at Champaign Clearing.
  • One honey badger foraging on Londolozi Boundary.

Tortoise Pan. Photo By Jordan Delvecchio

Sunday, 8 September 2024

(35°C)

  • Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of six lioness, one sub adult male and the Black Dam male lion stationary on Sandy Patch Road.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard and Nhenhe, the young ale leopard mobile East from Boundary Pan.
  • Breeding herd of approximately five hundred Cape buffalo drinking at Jordan’s Dam.

 

 

 

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