Weekly Big Five Sightings 16 – 22 June 2025

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Plains Camp Male lion. Photo by Armand Otto.

Monday, 16 June 2025

(26°C)

  • One breeding herd of approximately 15 African elephants mobile West along East Bank Manyeleti.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, with an impala kill stolen by five Spotted hyenas on Arathusa Main Road, West of Mkombe Road.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, hunting Cane rats in the Elephant Plains/Manyeleti Crossing.
  • One Plains Camp Male lion, mobile North on Kudu Drift.
  • One breeding herd of approximately 20 African elephants feeding around Serengeti Crossing.

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

(28°C)

  • Makhomsava, the female leopard, mobile South from Big Dam to Big Dam link south.
  • Four Kambula Male lions stationary North of Long Pole East.
  • One breeding herd of approximately 200 Cape buffalo mobile South from Long Pole East.
  • Four Nkuhuma lionesses, stationary North of Mafufenyane Junction.

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

(27°C)

  • Six Nkuhuma lionesses stationary on Horseshoe West.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, with one cub and an impala kill, South of Manyeleti Crossing.
  • One African elephant bull, feeding on Elephant Plains Open Area.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, with one cub stationary at Bushcamp Pan
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, with an impala kill on MMM North, South of One Eye Pan.

The Nkuhuma Pride. Photo by Nicholas Greeff.

Thursday, 19 June 2025

(26°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard with an impala kill on MMM North, South of One Eye Pan.
  • Langa, the female leopard, mobile South-West along Seepline East towards Arathusa Main Road.
  • One breeding herd of approximately 50 African elephants drinking at Serengeti Pan.
  • One male Cheetah mobile North from Buffelshoek/Gowrie Cutline towards Hunters Road.
  • Four Kambula Male lions feeding on a Cape buffalo kill on Twin Dam Road, South-West of Djuma Dam.

 

Friday, 20 June 2025

(32°C)

  • Three Kambula Male lions, feeding on a Cape buffalo kill on Wahlberg’s Road junction with Twin Dam Road,
  • One breeding herd of approximately 20 African elephants feeding along Sneezewood Road.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard, stationary North-East of Big Dam Link South on Arathusa Main Road.
  • One breeding herd of approximately 40 African elephants drinking at Leeukuil.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard stationary North-East of Elephant Plains/Manyeleti Crossing.

 

Saturday, 21 June 2025

(26°C)

  • Langa, the female leopard, mobile North from Leopard Drift.
  • One Ndzenga Male lion mating with one Nkuhuma lioness on the Northern end of Arathusa Airstrip.
  • Tlalamba and Tshipondo, the female leopard and cub, mobile South from Gowrie Dam to Twin Dam Road.
  • One breeding herd of approximately 40 African elephants feeding at Rampan.

Tortoise Pan, the male leopard. Photo by Nicholas Greeff.

Sunday, 22 June 2025

(26°C)

  • One African elephant bull feeding North of Elephant Plains/Manyeleti Crossing.

 

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