Weekly Big Five Sightings 24 – 30 November 2025

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Juvenile spotted hyena. Photo by Armand Otto

Monday, 24 November 2025

(28°C, 12mm Rain)

  • Two elephant bulls drinking water at Buffalo Pan.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard, resting on a termite mound on Monkey Orange Road.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, mobile south from Balanites Road towards Monkey Orange Road.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, feeding on an impala ram kill south of Leadwood Road.
  • A breeding herd of approximately twenty elephants drinking water at Baobab Dam.

Tuesday, 25 November 2025

(23°C, 2mm Rain)

  • Tiyani, the female leopard and her cub, feeding on an impala ram kill south of Leadwood Road.
  • The two Ndzhenga male lions resting on the southern side of Arathusa Safari Airstrip.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, mobile north along Nyathi Bamba Road.
  • A pack of eight African Wild Dog killed an impala lamb west of Sour Plum Road junction to Buffelshoek Gowrie cutline.

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

(30°C)

  • Tiyani, the female leopard, feeding on the remains of an impala ram kill south of Leadwood Road.
  • Maribye, the male leopard, feeding on an impala lamb north of Khaya Manzi dam wall.
  • The two Ndzhenga male lions resting south of Elephant Carcass junction to Twin Dams Road.
  • The Kambula pride of lions, consisting of two lionesses and six cubs, resting west of Londoz Drift.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, resting west of Madash S Bends junction to Broken Dam.

Ndzhenga, male lions. Photo by Armand Otto

Thursday, 27 November 2025

(36°C, 5mm Rain)

  • Xidulu, the female leopard, stationary West of One Eye Pan.
  • Three elephant bulls feeding on Madash North.
  • Elephant Plains spotted hyena den active with three adults and five cubs.

 

Friday, 28 November 2025

(28°C, 28mm Rain)

  • The two Ndzhenga male lions and five Nkuhuma lioness stationary at Second Windmill Pan.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard and her cub, stationary West of Marula Belt Four Way junction.
  • Two Kambula lioness and six cubs, stationary on the Western side of Londoz Drift.
  • A breeding herd of approximately twenty elephants, feeding around Arathusa Safari Airstrip.

Saturday, 29 November 2025

(32°C, 2.5mm Rain)

  • Tiyani, the female leopard and her cub, feeding on an impala kill North of Madash junction Broken Dam.
  • A breeding herd of eight elephants feeding on Sixteenth Crossing.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard mobile North from Arathusa Main West of Big Dam Link South.
  • A female cheetah and three sub adults, stationary in Vrystaat Clearing.

Elephant cow and calf. Photo by Armand Otto

Sunday, 30 November 2025

(27°C)

  • A female cheetah and three sub adults, mobile North on Poaches Road.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard mobile South from Leopard Drift.
  • Six buffalo bulls, feeding on the Manyaleti Boundary South of East West Cutline.

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