Weekly Big Five Sightings 7 – 13 July 2025

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Laluka, the female leopard. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Monday, 07 July 2025

(23°C)

  • Laluka, the female leopard drinking at Rhino Pan.
  • A breeding herd of ten elephants, feeding on Akiso Road.
  • A breeding herd of eighty elephants, feeding at EP open area.
  • A breeding herd of two hundred buffalo, resting on Seepline west of Boer Bean drinks stop.

Tuesday, 08 July 2025

(24°C)

  • Five members of the Nkuhuma pride, sleeping in the middle of the Bee Eater block.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mating with Xidulu, the female leopard north west of Tamboti drinks stop.
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants, drinking at Big Dam.
  • One buffalo bull, drinking at Big Dam.

Wednesday, 09 July2025

(25°C)

  • Three of the Kambula male lions, sleeping on Hyena Den Road west of Gowrie Cutline.
  • Six elephant bulls, feeding along Beacons Road.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard mobile east from the Pungwe on Simba Fire Break.
  • A breeding herd of thirty elephants, feeding in the Manyeleti river north of Kimbeon’s Crossing.
  • Five members of the Nkuhuma pride, sleeping North of Muhluwane drinks stop.

Plains Camp male lion. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Thursday, 010 July 2025

(26°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile north from Kraainess pan towards Sawmill Road.
  • The two Plains Camp male lions, resting at Simba Dam.
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants, feeding on Bush Camp East.
  • A breeding herd of twelve elephants, feeding along Rhino Ring North.

Friday, 11 July 2025

(29°C)

  • A breeding herd of twelve elephants, feeding at Rhulani Open area.
  • A breeding herd of twenty elephants, drinking at Bush Camp Pan.
  • Maribye, the male leopard and Luna, the female leopard interacting at Wildebeest Open Area.
  • Tshipondo, the young female leopard stationary at Twin Dams.
  • Two African elephant bulls feeding along Vuyatela Access.
  • Xidulu, the female leopards successfully hunting impala and taking it into a marula tree on Buff Skull South.

Saturday, 12 July 2025

(26°C)

  • Xidulu, the female leopard resting in a marula tree with her impala kill on Buff Skull South.
  • The Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of 7 individuals stationary East of Grass Cut.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard and her cub feeding on a bushbuck kill at Ntoma Crossing.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard mobile South on Kudu Drift.
  • A breeding herd of 50 African elephants feeding around Rampan Pan.

Tortoise Pan, the male leopard. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Sunday, 13 July2025

(24°C)

  • Xidulu, the female leopard resting in a marula tree with her impala kill on Buff Skull South.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard and her cub feeding on a bushbuck kill at Ntoma Crossing.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard mobile South from big Dam.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopards mating with Langa, the female leopard in the Manyeleti River North of EP Manyeleti Crossing.
  • A breeding herd of 50 African elephants feeding around Old Bush Camp.

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