The Big 5 highlight of the week was to see a young female cheetah moving north from Kaal Kol open area
Monday, 16 December 2013
(28ºC)
- Fifteen wild dogs hunting and killing 6 juvenile impalas on EP driveway
- One buffalo bull resting on Mabuza Road
- Eight buffalo bulls moving south from our Southern boundary
- One elephant bull moving south from Milkberry Road
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
(26ºC)
- A breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding on EP open area
- Thandi, the female leopard, and her cub Bawuti sitting in a marula tree after they were chased up the tree by a Styx pride lioness who stole their kill
- Four buffalo bulls resting on EP/Shirley’s cutline
- Nsele, the female leopard, feeding on an impala kill on Robson’s boundary
- Tingana, the male leopard, moving south from Shirley’s Crossing
- Another breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding on A-main
- Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding around EP/Shirley’s cutline
- Three female lions of the Styx pride resting at Boer Bean Pan
- One elephant bull feeding at Kraaines Pan
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
(25ºC)
- One elephant bull feeding at Tamboti open area
- A breeding herd of about twenty five elephants moving north from Shirley’s Crossing
- Salayexe, the female leopard, mating with the young Robson’s male leopard close to Gaby’s Crossing
- Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding around 5-Way Junction
- Four buffalo bulls feeding on EP open area
- Three female lions of the Styx pride stalking wildebeest on Safari airstrip
Thursday, 19 December 2013
(26ºC)
- Two buffalo bulls resting on our Southern boundary
- A breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Mamba Road
- Two elephant bulls feeding on Serengeti open area
- Lamula, the male leopard, and Moya, the female leopard, mating south of A-main
- One buffalo bull resting in Grissly Bear Crossing
Friday, 20 December 2013
(25ºC)
- The Styx lion pride resting on Old Borehole Road
- Three buffalo bulls resting in a mud wallow on Kudu Drift
- Four buffalo bulls feeding on A-main
- Anderson, the male leopard, mating with Nsele, the female leopard, close to EP airstrip
- One elephant bull feeding around Nyala Crossing
- A breeding herd of about twenty elephants drinking water at Serengeti Pan
- Another breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding close to Tamboti open area
Saturday, 21 December 2013
(32ºC)
- A breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding on Ngala open area
- Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on MMM North
- The Styx lion pride resting close to Chitwa Chitwa driveway
- The Fourway lion pride resting on Gowrie Main
- One cheetah female moving north on Kaal Kol open area
- Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Little Gowrie driveway
- One buffalo bull feeding around 2nd Windmill
Sunday, 22 December 2013
(33ºC)
- Mvula, the male leopard, resting on MMM North
- A pack of fifteen wild dogs killing an impala on Safari airstrip
- A breeding herd of about fifty elephants feeding on Rhulani Road
- Salayexe, the female leopard, scent marking around EP main gate
- Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding close to Tamboti open area
- Eight buffalo bulls drinking water at Simbambili Dam