Weekly Big Five Sightings 10-16 March 2025

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Mantimahle male lion- Jordan Delvecchio

Monday, 10 March 2025

(30°C 1.5mm)

  • A breeding herd of forty buffalo, drinking at Arathusa Safari Dam.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard and two cub’s mobile west from EP/Sherley’s cutline.
  • A breeding herd of ten buffalo, feeding between Kudu Drift and Rhino Ring East.
  • One elephant bull, mobile Towards the rocks from Kudu Drift.

Tuesday, 11 March 2025

(32°C)

  • Makhomsava, the female leopard mobile east on Central Road.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard static at second windmill pan.
  • Nhenhe, the young male leopard east of Nkombe junction of A-main.

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

(27°C)

  • Seven members of the Nkuhuma pride and the Black Dam male lion, sleeping east of Rhulani Road.
  • Thalamba, the female leopard and Tspondo, the young female leopard resting in a tree on Pangolin Track.
  • One of the Imbali lioness and three cubs west of Broken Dam.
  • Two Mantimahle male lions, mobile north from Baobab Dam.
  • Timbavati, the male leopard static at Baobab Dam.

Thalamba- photo by Jordan Delvecchio

Thursday, 13 March 2025

(29°C)

  • A breeding herd of forty buffalo, mobile north from Big Dam Link North.
  • Thalamba, the female leopard and Tspondo, the young female leopard resting in a tree on Pangolin Track.
  • Nhenhe, the young male leopard mobile east from Central Road.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard mobile east from Sherley’s Crossing.
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants, drinking from Leeukuil pan.

Friday, 14 March 2025

(29°C)

  • Makhomsava, the female leopard and one cub resting between Mfesi open and Cutline.
  • One Mantimahle male lion and three Imbali lioness, sleeping on Hunters Moon drive way east of East/West Cutline.
  • One Mantimahle male lion, sleeping east of Big Dam.
  • A breeding herd of fifty buffalo, feeding west of Big Dam.
  • Three elephant bulls, feeding on KBR Road.
  • One male cheetah, feeding on an Impala on Buffels/Gowrie cutline North of Cruz Camp drive way.

Saturday, 15 March 2025

(27°C)

  • Seven of the Nkuhuma lioness and two young males, sleeping on Maddash north of Cutline.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard sleeping on a termite mound East of Knob Thorn open.
  • Thalamba, the female leopard and Tshipondo, the young female leopard feeding on a impala ram kill on Philemon’s cutline.
  • A pack of thirteen wild dogs, sleeping on Elephant Plains airstrip.
  • The two Mantimahle male lions and one Imbali lioness with three cubs on Reedbok road.

Tortoise Pan- Photo Jordan Delvecchio

Sunday, 16 March 2025

(30°C)

  • One Monwana male lion and one Nkuhuma Lioness, mobile North on Airport Link.
  • Thalamba, the female leopard and Tshipondo, the young female leopard mobile east on Pangolin Track.
  • Maribye, the male leopard feeding on a impala kill on Philemon’s cutline.
  • One elephant bull, drinking at Leeukuil pan.
  • One buffalo bull, sleeping east of Simba Dam.

 

 

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