Big 5 Sightings 08 to 14 July 2013

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The Big 5 highlight of the week was to see Shadow, the female leopard, stalking and killing a young impala on Marula Bult South

 

Shadow with her kill - Dawie Jacobs

Shadow with her kill – Dawie Jacobs

Monday, 8 July 2013

(25ºC)

  • A breeding herd of about fifteen elephants feeding on A-main close to Ncombe Road
  • Three buffalo bulls resting in the mud wallows north of Treehouse Pan
  • Kurula, the female leopard, scent marking around Baboon Pan
  • Wabayiza, the sub adult male leopard, resting in the Mlowati river bed
  • Twelve buffalo bulls resting close to Serengeti Pan
  • One of the Majingi male lions chasing the sub adult lioness out of the Tsalala pride around Nyati Bamba Road

 

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

(22ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard, moving east on Robson’s boundary
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants moving south from Boundary pan
  • One Majingi male lion resting west of Boundary Pan
  • Four Tsalala pride lionesses resting at Simbambili Dam
  • Another breeding herd of about sixty elephants feeding around Pommies Pan

 

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

(22ºC)

  • A breeding herd of about thirty elephants moving south from Zebra Drive
  • Salayexe, the female leopard, stalking impalas on EP floodplain
  • Tingana, the male leopard, mating with Shadow, the female leopard, on Wetpatch open area
  • Four Tsalala pride lionesses moving east from Serengeti Pan

 

Young honey badger - Dawie Jacobs

Young honey badger – Dawie Jacobs

Thursday, 11 July 2013

(23ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard, moving west from Rampan
  • Tingana and Shadow with an impala kill on Marula Bult South
  • A breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Seepline Road
  • Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on EP open area

 

Friday, 12 July 2013

(21ºC)

  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Wetpatch Road
  • Tingana and Shadow still with the impala kill on Marula Bult South
  • A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Madash Road
  • Lamula, the male leopard, moving east on Seepline Road

 

Saturday, 13 July 2013

(22ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard, hunting impala on EP airstrip
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on EP delivery road
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding around Shirley’s Crossing
  • The Styx lion pride stalking impalas on Chitwa Chitwa old driveway
  • Wabayiza, the sub adult male leopard, with a juvenile kudu kill in a marula tree south of Mhisi Mati

 

Majingi male lion - Dawie Jacobs

Majingi male lion – Dawie Jacobs

Sunday, 14 July 2013

(26ºC)

  • Wabayiza, the sub adult male leopard, still feeding on the kudu kill south of Mhisi Mati
  • A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding close to EP Lodge main gate
  • Another breeding herd of about 20 elephants feeding close to Nyati Bamba Road
  • Tingana, the male leopard, and another unknown male leopard having a stand-off close to Kraaines

 

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