Weekly Big Five Sightings 4 – 10 November 2024

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Kambula male lion, Photo By Jordan Delvecchio

Monday, 04 November 2024

(40°C)

  • Two of the Kambula male lions, sleeping on Impala Road.
  • A breeding herd of ten elephants, feeding on Ximungwe Road.
  • One elephant bull, drinking at Simba Dam.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard and Nhenhe, the young male leopard static on Maddash S-bends feeding on an impala kill.

 

Tuesday, 05 November 2024

(33°C)

  • The four Imbali lioness, sleeping between East-West Cutline and Diagonal Road West.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard and Nhenhe, the young male leopard feeding on a impala kill on Safari driveway junction Pump-Track.
  • Laluka, the female leopard stationary on Arathusa Safari Driveway junction Magic Willie.
  • One cape buffalo bull feeding along Old Elephant Plains Driveway.
  • Breeding herd of approximately twenty African elephants feeding on Shinzele.

Wednesday, 06 November 2024

(23°C 1mm rain)

  • Two Kambula male lions stationary on Konkoni junction Seepline East.
  • A pack of two African wild dogs stationary at Bushcamp Pan.
  • Two cape buffalo bulls mobile North on Rhino Ring West.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard stationary South of Elephant Plains Arathusa Private Cutline.

Tlalamba and cub, Photo By Jordan Delvecchio

Thursday, 07 November 2024

(22°C 1.5mm rain)

  • Xidulu, the female leopard trailing Tortoise Pan, the male leopard North along Monkey Orange road.
  • One Kambula male lion mating with one Nkuhuma lioness on Monkey Orange junction Zoe’s road.
  • Breeding herd of approximately twenty African elephants feeding along Zebra Drive.
  • Nhenhe, the young male leopard with an impala kill West of Pump Track junction Arathusa Safari Driveway.
  • One Kambula male lion stationary at 2nd
  • Timbavati, the male leopard mobile North from Vrystaat Clearing.
  • Two Mantimahle male lions feeding on a cape buffalo kill at Guarri Pan.

Friday, 08 November 2024

(26°C 1.5mm rain)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile West from Leeukuil.
  • Two of the Kambula male lions, sleeping on Safari Driveway at the junction of Airport link.
  • The Southern Avoca male lion and the Kruger male lion mating with two Nkuhuma lioness, at the junction of Cutline and Konkoni,
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants, feeding around the Northern end of Arathusa airstrip.
  • Nhenhe, the young male leopard sleeping West of Safari drive way junction with Pump track.
  • Two buffalo bulls, feeding on Central Road junction with Lost Track.

Saturday, 09 November 2024

(32°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard and Xidulu, the female leopard mating at Rhulani Open.
  • Five Nkuhuma lions, feeding on a Buffalo at Rhulani open.
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants, feeding at Ngala Open.
  • One buffalo bull, feeding at Ngala Open.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard feeding on an impala lamb South of Elephant Plains Lodge.

Nkuhuma lioness on a buffalo carcass, Photo By Jordan Delvecchio

Sunday, 10 November 2024

(34°C)

  • Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of four lioness and one sub adult male stationary South of Pungwe Pan.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mating with Xidulu, the female leopard at Pungwe Crossing with Tiyani, the female leopard observing.
  • Two Mantimahle male lion’s stationary at the quarry on the fence line.
  • Three Kambula male lions and on Nkuhuma lioness stationary on Rhulani.
  • Breeding herd of six African elephants feeding in the Manyaleti river South of EP Manyaleti Crossing.

 

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