Weekly Big Big Five Sightings 30 December 2024 – 5 January 2025

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Makhomsava, the female leopard. Photo By Nicholas Greeff

Monday, 30 December 2024

(34°C)

  • Breeding herd of approximately seventy cape buffalo drinking water at Big Dam.
  • Nhenhe, the male leopard stationary on the Northern side of Arathusa Safari Airstrip.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard and her two cubs at the den site South of Eagle Owl Crossing.
  • Two Mantimahle male lions and four Imbali lioness hunting cape buffalo around Millions Clearing.

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

(37°C)

  • Breeding herd of fifteen African elephants mobile North on Sandy Patch.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard and her two cubs stationary at the den side South of Eagle Owl Crossing.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard stationary on top of a termite mound South of Rhulani Open.

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

(36°C)

  • One male Cheetah stationary East of Triple Pan junction East West Cutline.
  • Breeding herd of approximately seventy cape buffalo drinking water at Baobab Dam.
  • One Nkuhuma lioness stationary at Second Windmill.
  • Four Monwana male lions stationary South of Second Windmill Road junction Zebra Drive.
  • Two Nkuhuma lioness and the Black Dam male lion chasing cape buffalo bulls South towards Safari Donga South.

African wild dog. Photo By Nicholas Greeff

Thursday, 2 January 2025

(33°C 32mm Rain)

  • Nhenhe, the male leopard hunting impala on the Northern side of Arathusa Safari Airstrip.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard stationary South of Hawk Eagle.
  • Breeding herd of feeding in an Easterly direction from Gaby’s Causeway.
  • Tlalamaba, the female leopard and her cub feeding on a grey duiker kill on the junction of Nyala Road North and Central.

Friday, 3 January 2025

(33°C)

  • Two African wild dogs feeding on an impala lamb kill at Simbambili Open Area.
  • Breeding herd of eighteen African elephants mobile South towards Kudu Drift.
  • Two Mantimahle male lions feeding on a cape buffalo kill at Cattle Dip.
  • The Imbali pride of lions consisting of four lioness stationary South of Jordaan’s Dam.

Saturday, 4 January 2025

(36°C)

  • Makhomsava, the female leopard encountered a serval, and swiftly killed it before scavenging an impala lamb kill West of Konkoni.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile East from Rampan Pan.
  • Two Kambula male lions and the Nkuhuma pride consisting of six lioness and one sub adult male stalking giraffe on Old Elephant Plains Driveway junction Elephant Palins Driveway.
  • Laluka, the female leopard mobile West into Othawa from Rhino Pan Road.

Cheetah. Photo By Nicholas Greeff

Sunday, 5 January 2025

(36°C)

  • Breeding herd of approximately eighty cape buffalo feeding along the Buffelshoek Gowrie Cutline junction with Dave’s Road.
  • Tlalamba, the female leopard and her cub with a steenbok kill at Buffelshoek Dam.

 

 

 

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