Weekly Big Five Sightings 7 – 13 September 2026

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Mahlowasi, the female leopard on an impala kill. Photo by Garrick Myburgh

Monday, 7 September 2026

(16°C, 8mm Rain)

  • The Nkuhuma pride consisting of seven lioness and 13 cubs stationary on Parallel North.

Tuesday, 8 September 2026

(19°C, 2mm Rain)

  • A pack of seven African wild dogs mobile North from Guarrie Central.
  • Mahlowasi, the female leopard mobile North from EP Open Area.
  • Two African elephant bulls feeding on Drongo South.
  • Three cape buffalo bulls stationary at Five Way Junction.
  • Langa, the female leopard mobile South East from Sherley’s Safari Cutline.
  • The Nkuhuma pride consisting of seven lioness, 13 cubs and two Ndzhenga males stationary onTjololo.

Wednesday, 9 September 2026

(24°C, 3mm Rain)

  • Xidulu, the female leopard mobile South from Tjololo.
  • The Nkuhuma pride consisting of seven lioness, 13 cubs and one Ndzhenga male stationary on Southern Fork.
  • One Ndzhenga male lion stationary at Xigodi Pan.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard stationary on a termite mound North of Zebra Drive.
  • A breeding herd of 12 African elephants feeding on the Northern side of Arathusa Safari Airstrip.
  • The four Torchwood male lions stationary North East of Imvubu Road.

Nkuhuma lioness. Photo by Garrick Myburgh

Thursday, 10 September 2026

(27°C)

  • Makhomsava, the female leopard stationary on a termite mound on Londolozi Boundary.
  • Xidulu, the female leopard and one cub feeding on an impala carcass Zebra Drive Elle Alley junction.
  • Three cape buffalo bulls drinking at Marula Belt West.

Friday, 11 September 2026

(31°C)

  • Mahlowasi, the female leopard with in impala ewe kill in a Jackelberry North of EP Manyaleti Crossing.
  • Two Ndzhenga male lions stationary Rhulani Open.
  • The Nkuhuma pride consisting of seven lioness and 13 cubs stationary onTjololo.

Saturday, 12 September 2026

(28°C)

  • Mahlowasi, the female leopard with in impala ewe kill in a Jackelberry North of EP Manyaleti Crossing.
  • Tiyani, the female leopard mobile South in the Manyaleti river South of Ntoma Crossing.
  • One Ndzhenga male lion mobile South on Arathusa Safari Driveway.
  • The Nkuhuma pride consisting of seven lioness and 13 cubs stationary on Arathusa Sherley’s Cutline.
  • Langa, the female leopard having a standoff with Makhomsava, the female leopard between Central and Arathusa Sherley’s Cutline.
  • Two cape buffalo bulls mobile South East from Lost Track.

Nkuhuma pride. Photo by Garrick Myburgh

Sunday, 13 September 2026

(28°C)

  • The Nkuhuma pride consisting of seven lioness, 13 cubs and two Ndzhenga males feeding on a cape buffalo bull kill on Grass Cut Mkombe junction.
  • Tortoise Pan, the male leopard scavenging a giraffe carcass South of Arathusa Safari Driveway East of the Airstrip.

Weekly Big Five Sightings 2 November – 8 November 2026 Monday, 2 November 2026 (30°C) Tortoise Pan, the male leopard stationary north of Shortcut Wetpatch. Xidulu, the female leopard, with her male cub and an impala kill on Vuyatela Access. Three elephants feeding...

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