{"id":11235,"date":"2025-09-07T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T08:20:41","slug":"weekly-big-5-sightings-1-sept-7-sep-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/2025\/09\/weekly-big-5-sightings-1-sept-7-sep-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Big 5 Sightings 1 Sept-7 Sep 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11237\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/934E9494-6209-4250-9DD5-DF87233A8F69-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11237\" class=\"wp-image-11237 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/934E9494-6209-4250-9DD5-DF87233A8F69-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martial Eagle. Photo by Armand Otto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monday, 01 September 2025<\/p>\n<p>(29\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tortoise Pan, the male leopard mobile south from Helipad Road.<\/li>\n<li>A breeding herd of approximately twenty elephants feeding along Rhino Ring North.<\/li>\n<li>Four Kambula male lions resting west of Big Dam.<\/li>\n<li>Xidulu, the female leopard, drinking at Red Dam.<\/li>\n<li>Tiyani, the female leopard mobile west with one cub from the Pungwe riverbed towards Island Loop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday, 02 September 2025<\/p>\n<p>(31\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two Nkuhuma lionesses stationary west of Mbuvu Road.<\/li>\n<li>Tiyani, the female leopard, feeding on an impala kill with one cub, east of The Island Loop.<\/li>\n<li>A pack of approximately ten African Wild Dogs highly mobile east away from Tiyani and her cub\u2019s impala kill on Island Loop. Trailed by ten hyenas.<\/li>\n<li>Tortoise Pan, the male leopard, mobile north from KBR crossing.<\/li>\n<li>A breeding herd of ten elephants feeding along Arathusa Main Road junction to MMM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wednesday, 03 September 2025<\/p>\n<p>(42\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Langa, the female leopard, rstationary east of Londolozi Drift with an impala kill.<\/li>\n<li>Two Ndhzenga male lions resting between Ellie Alley and Parallel Road.<\/li>\n<li>Three Kambula male lions mobile west from Mnisi Road.<\/li>\n<li>A breeding herd of approximately 500 buffalo mobile SE from EW cutline junction to Liebies Road.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11238\" style=\"width: 863px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARM02632-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11238\" class=\"wp-image-11238 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARM02632-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imbali lioness. Photo by Armand Otto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thursday, 04 September 2025<\/p>\n<p>(29\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four Kambula male lions trailing a herd of approximately 500 African buffalo SE of Buffelshoek Dam.<\/li>\n<li>Tlalamba, the female leopard, stationary on Mvubu Road.<\/li>\n<li>One elephant bull feeding along Vuyatela Access.<\/li>\n<li>Langa, the female leopard, stationary east of Londolozi drift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friday, 05 September 2025<\/p>\n<p>(34\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three Imbali lionesses mobile SW from Milkberry towards Umbrella Tree Clearing.<\/li>\n<li>A breeding herd of approximately 500 buffalo mobile south from Cruse Camp to Gowrie\/Buffelshoek cutline.<\/li>\n<li>Four Kambula male lions stationary on Squirrels view east of Broken Dam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday, 06 September 2025<\/p>\n<p>(24\u00b0C)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tlalamba and Tshipondo with an impala kill south of Elephant Carcass.<\/li>\n<li>A breeding herd of approximately 12 elephants feeding along EP Driveway.<\/li>\n<li>A pack of two African wild dog\u2019s mobile west from Rampan.<\/li>\n<li>Four Nkuhuma lionesses crossed Gowrie Main into Little Gowrie.<\/li>\n<li>Xidulu, the female leopard, feeding on an impala kill east of Simbambili Dam on the firebreak.<\/li>\n<li>A pack of two African Wild Dogs killing and eating an impala SW of Shortcut Wetpatch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11239\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/little-bee-eater-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11239\" class=\"wp-image-11239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/little-bee-eater-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/little-bee-eater-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/little-bee-eater-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/little-bee-eater-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/elephantplains.co.za\/big-5-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/little-bee-eater-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Bee Eater. 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