Weekly Big 5 Sightings 4-10 August 2025

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Tiyani’s Cub, Photo by Matthew Lippstreu

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, 04 August 2025

(29°C)

  • Tiyani, the female leopard, and her one cub resting in the Pungwe in between Island Crossing and Tamboti Crossing.
  • Two Ndhzenga male lions scavenged a impala kill from a pack of 10 African Wild Dogs with the Kambula pride of lions, consisting of 2 lionesses and 4 cubs on Arathusa main, west of Big Dam.

Tuesday, 05 August 2025

(26°C)

  • Two elephant bulls, mobile south along Grass Cut.
  • Ntsumie, the female leopard, having a social interaction with her father, the Molwati male leopard around Nyala Dam.
  • One Kambula male lion and two Nkuhuma lioness resting off of Tjololo.
  • Two wild dogs, mobile south on Gowrie Cutline.
  • One Nkuhuma lioness, finishing the remains of an impala carcass off of Mamba Link.
  • Three Nkuhuma lioness, feeding on a fresh waterbuck kill north of Simbambili Dam.

 

Wednesday, 06 August 2025

(26°C)

  • Four Kambula male lions and one Nkuhuma lioness resting around Hardekool Camp.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, drinking from Rampan.

 

Makhomsava, the female leopard. Photo by Nicholas Greeff

 

 

 

Thursday, 07 August 2025

(24°C)

  • Maribyes, the male leopard, feeding on a grey duiker kill, just off of MMM, south of One Eye Pan junction.
  • Three Nkuhuma lioness, mobile West from Grass Cut.
  • Tlalamba, the female leopard and Tsiphondo, the young female leopard, mobile North from Twin Dam.
  • Breeding herd of around 25 elephants drinking from Leeukuil.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, had her freshly killed nyala stolen by 6 hyenas.

Friday, 08 August 2025

(27°C)

  • Laluka, the female leopard, mobile east through Gaby’s Open.
  • Breeding herd of three elephants, dust bathing around Five-Way-Junction.

Saturday, 09 August 2025

(28°C)

  • Tiyani, the female leopard, and her one cub feeding on a bushbuck calf, south of Kimbeon’s Crossing.
  • The Nkuhuma pride of lions, consisting of 7 lionesses and 1 Kambula male lion, feeding on a buffalo kill on Cheetah Cutline junction to Gowrie Main.
  • A breeding herd of approximately 50 elephants drinking at Big Dam.

Kambula Males, Photo by Nicholas Greeff

Sunday. 10 August 2025

(30°C)

  • Xidulu, the female leopard, stationary at the inflow of Simbambili Dam.
  • One Kambula Male lion stationary at Galago Pan.

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