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Photo by Nicholas Greeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monday, 27 January 2025<\/p>\n<p>(31\u00b0C, 2.5mm Rain)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Makhomsava, the female leopard and her two cubs feeding on a warthog piglet kill East of Big Dam.<\/li>\n<li>One African elephant bull mobile North on Elephant Plains Driveway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday, 28 January 2025<\/p>\n<p>(31\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One Kambula male lion stationary North of Horseshoe Open Area.<\/li>\n<li>One African elephant bull feeding on marula fruit on the Northern side of Elephant Plains Airstrip.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wednesday, 29 January 2025<\/p>\n<p>(30\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of three lioness and one sub adult male stationary on Arathusa Safari Airstrip.<\/li>\n<li>One Kambula male lion vocalising at Second Windmill Pan.<\/li>\n<li>Breeding herd of eight African elephant feeding North of Arathusa Safari Driveway.<\/li>\n<li>One African elephant bull swimming at Big Dam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11048\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kambula-male--scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11048\" class=\"wp-image-11048 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kambula-male--1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kambula-male--980x551.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kambula-male--480x270.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kambula male lion, Photo by Nicholas Greeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thursday, 30 January 2025<\/p>\n<p>(32\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two African wild dogs mobile West from Marula Belt North.<\/li>\n<li>Pack of six African wild dogs mobile South on Madash.<\/li>\n<li>Breeding herd of ten African elephants feeding on Big Dam Link South.<\/li>\n<li>The Nkuhuma pride consisting of eight individuals and one Kambula male lion stationary at the Tamboti thicket on Guarri Central.<\/li>\n<li>Makhomsava, the female leopard mobile North from Arathusa Safari Lodge.<\/li>\n<li>Nhenhe, the young male leopard stationary on Airport Link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friday, 31 January 2025<\/p>\n<p>(33\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Makhomsava, the female leopard mobile West on Seepline East.<\/li>\n<li>Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile West from MMM North towards Red Dam.<\/li>\n<li>One Kambula male lion stationary in the inflow of Big Dam.<\/li>\n<li>Gonya, the male leopard mobile South East from Tamboti Open Area.<\/li>\n<li>Three African elephant bulls feeding on Leopard Drift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday, 1 February 2025<\/p>\n<p>(36\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xidulu, the female leopard stationary in a tree West of Marula Belt North.<\/li>\n<li>Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile South from Old Elephant Palins Driveway junction Elephant Plains Driveway.<\/li>\n<li>Tiyani, the female leopard and her two cubs at the den side Manyeleti Firebreak Crossing.<\/li>\n<li>Breeding herd of eight African elephants swimming at Big Dam.<\/li>\n<li>Hlambela, the male leopard stationary at Serengeti Open Area.<\/li>\n<li>The Imbali pride of lions consisting of four lioness and the two Mantimahle male lions mobile North from Brown Ivory Clearing.<\/li>\n<li>One African elephant bull feeding on Marula fruit at Gowrie Gate.<\/li>\n<li>One Kambula male lion stationary at 2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Nhenhe, the male leopard on Arathusa Safari Driveway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11050\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Makhomsava-cub-1-2-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11050\" class=\"wp-image-11050 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Makhomsava-cub-1-2-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Makhomsava-cub-1-2-980x551.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Makhomsava-cub-1-2-480x270.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makhomsava&#8217;s cub. 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