Weekly Big Five Sightings 10-16 February 2025

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Xidulu, the female leopard. Photo by Jordan Delvecchio

Monday, 10 February 2025

(26°C)

  • A pack of six wild dogs, hunting impala on the northern end of Elephant Plains airstrip.
  • The Nkuhuma pride of lions, consisting of seven lioness and one young male sleeping on Magic Willy Road junction with Elly Alley.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard drinking from the quarry on the eastern side of Arathusa airstrip.
  • Mokhomsava, the female leopard sleeping on Big Dam Link North.
  • One Kambula male lion and one Nkuhuma lioness, sleeping at Second Windmill Pan.
  • A breeding herd of fifty buffalo, feeding in an easterly direction from Vrystaat Clearing.

Tuesday, 11 February 2025

(24°C)

  • A breeding herd of fifty buffalo, feeding at Nsinga open area.
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants feeding at Five Way Junction.
  • The two Mantimahle male lions, sleeping on the eastern side of Arathusa airstrip.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard sleeping at the inflow of Big Dam.
  • A Breeding of thirty elephants, swimming at Simba Dam.

Wednesday, 12 February 2025

(27°C)

  • Mokhomsava, the female leopard mobile west from Seepline to Kudu Drift.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile west towards Rhino Ring East from Kudu Drift.
  • Two elephant bulls, feeding at the junction of Kudu Drift and Leopard Drift.
  • One Talamati lioness, mobile west from Jacana open area.

Spotted Eagle Owl. Phot by Jordan Delvecchio

Thursday, 13 February 2025

(33°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile from Guarri Central towards Elephant Plains old drive way.
  • The Nkuhuma pride of lions, consisting of six lioness and one young male lion mobile east on MMM South.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard feeding on an impala kill at the junction of Ximungwe and Wet Patch Road.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard sleeping at the Manyeleti crossing on the fence line.
  • The two Mantimahle male lions and two Imbali lioness, feeding on a zebra kill on Hunters Moon access.

Friday, 14 February 2025

(36°C)

  • The two Mantimahle male lions and two Imbali lioness, feeding on a zebra kill on Hunters Moon access.
  • One bull elephant, mobile east from bush Camp Pan.
  • A pack of seven wild dogs, sleeping on the southern end of Elephant Plains airstrip.
  • Nkuhuma pride of lions, consisting of six lioness and one young male sleeping north of Second Windmill.
  • One elephant bull, feeding at the junction of A-main and the southern end of Elephant Plains airstrip.

Saturday, 15 February 2025

(27°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard sleeping on Akiso Road.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard mobile on Elephant Plains driveway towards Deliveries Road.
  • Mokhomsava, the female leopard sleeping in a marula tree on Londolozi boundary west of Big Dam Link South.
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants, drinking at Big Dam.
  • Six members of the Elephant Plains clan, feeding on an Impala at Kraainess.

Tortoise Pan, the male leopard. Photo by Jordan Delvecchio

Sunday, 16 February 2025

(26°C)

  • The two Mantimahle male lions and two Imbali Lioness, sleeping east of the Manyeleti boundary on East/West Cutline.
  • Mokhomsava, the female leopard and her two cubs feeding on a unknown kill south of Arathusa safari cutline with Arathusa Private.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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