Weekly Big Five Sightings 27 October – 2 November 2025

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Kambula Male lions. Photo by Armand Otto

Monday, 27 October 2025

(29°C)

30mm Rainfall overnight

  • A breeding herd of approximately 20 elephants mobile north from EP Open Area.
  • A breeding herd of approximately 12 elephants drinking at EP Open Area.
  • Three buffalo bulls feeding at Pungwe Crossing.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, with a scrub hare kill at Leeuikuil.

Tuesday, 28 October 2025

(28°C)

  • A breeding herd of eight elephants feeding on Ottawa Boundary south of Mzemba Crossing.
  • One Kambula male lion crossing north into the Manyeleti from Champagne Road, Buffelshoek.
  • Makhomsava, the female leopard, hunting a scrub hare west of Konkoni.

Wednesday, 29 October 2025

(33°C)

  • Tortoise pan, the male leopard, finishing the remains of his impala kill north of Ximungwe.
  • A breeding herd of approximately twenty elephants mobile north from Marula Bult West.

Young Hyena. Photo by Armand Otto

Thursday, 30 October 2025

(21°C)

  • Maribye, the male leopard, feeding on a steenbok kill north of Khaya Manzi Dam wall.
  • One Kambula male lion and one Imbali lioness mating at Big Dam, Buffelshoek
  • A breeding herd of approximately twelve elephant’s mobile west on Zebra Drive.

Friday, 31 October 2025

(26°C)

  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, feeding on an impala kill north of EP/Manyeleti crossing.
  • One Nkuhuma lioness mobile SE from Buff Pan.
  • One Nkuhuma lioness mating with one Ndzhenga male north of Arathusa/Shirley’s cutline.
  • Four Nkuhuma lionesses and three cubs with one Ndzhenga male mobile west from Hoffman’s Drift.
  • Three Buffalo bulls mobile north from Xihumbane.

Saturday, 1 November 2025

(37°C)

  • A breeding herd of approximately eight elephants drinking from Serengeti Pan.
  • One Ndzhenga male lion, stationary south of Buffalo Pan.
  • Four Nkuhuma lionesses stationary with one Ndzhenga male at Red Dam.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, mobile west along Shinzele into the Pungwe.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, stationary south of The Island Crossing.

 

Mom and Baby Elephant. Photo by Armand Otto

Sunday, 2 November 2025

(23°C)

  • A pack of 18 African Wild Dogs mobile SW from Simbambili Open Area toward PU.
  • A breeding herd of approximately 50 elephants mobile and feeding south along EP/Manyeleti Crossing.
  • One Ndzhenga male lion mating with an Nkuhuma lioness, on Last Track of Arathusa Safari.

 

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