Big 5 Sightings 09 to 15 November 2015

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The Big 5 highlight of the week was to see 14 wild dogs drinking water at EP open area.

Wild dogs feeding on a bushbuck - Dawie Jacobs

Wild dogs feeding on a bushbuck – Dawie Jacobs

Monday, 9 November 2015
(36ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard, and her cub resting at Leeukuil Pan
  • A breeding herd of about 400 buffalos drinking water at Big Dam
  • A breeding herd of about 100 elephants feeding Serengeti/Manyeleti Crossing
  • Five Birmingham male lions resting south of Treehouse Pan
  • Another breeding herd of about fifty elephants feeding on Rocky Road
  • One elephant bull feeding at Big Dam
  • One very large elephant bull feeding on Sawmill Road
  • Two Breakaway female lionesses resting on Sawmill Road

 

Tuesday, 10 November 2015
(32ºC)

  • The Breakaway lion pride resting at Rhino Pan
  • One buffalo bull feeding on Simbambili Firebreak
  • A breeding herd of about 400 buffalos feeding on Madash Road
  • A breeding herd of about fifteen elephants feeding on Puff Adder Road
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding at Rhino Pan
  • Three Styx female lionesses feeding on a buffalo kill on Djuma Old driveway
  • Tingana, the male leopard, moving east from Worsboom Crossing
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Gowrie Main
  • Five Birmingham male lions resting at Chitwa Chitwa Dam
  • Another breeding herd of about fifteen elephants drinking water at Treehouse Pan
  • Another breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding on A-main

 

Wednesday, 11 November 2015
(36ºC)

  • A breeding herd of about twenty five elephants feeding on Madash Road
  • Two Tsalala female lionesses resting at Big Dam
  • A breeding herd of about fifty buffalos feeding at Land Cruiser Crossing
  • Anderson, the male leopard, resting at Rhulani Road
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding at Leeukuil Pan
  • Another breeding herd of about fifteen elephants drinking water at EP open area
Tingana the male leopard - Dawie Jacobs

Tingana the male leopard – Dawie Jacobs

Thursday, 12 November 2015
(36ºC)

  • Two Tsalala female lionesses feeding on a buffalo kill on Central Road
  • Shadow, the female leopard, moving east from Fifteenth Crossing
  • A breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding at Leeukuil Pan
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Seef’s Pan Road
  • A breeding herd of about 400 buffalos feeding at Big Dam

 

Friday, 13 November 2015

(35ºC)

  • Two Tsalala female lionesses resting at Big Dam
  • A breeding herd of about 400 buffalos drinking water at Big Dam
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on A-main
  • Another breeding herd of about fifteen elephants feeding on Puffadder Road
  • Kwatile, the female leopard, moving south from Ingwe open area
  • Mvula, the male leopard, resting south of Worsboom Crossing
  • Another breeding herd of about fifteen elephants feeding on Konkoni Road
  • Six buffalo bulls resting at Kraaines Pan
  • One male cheetah resting at Ingwe open area

 

Saturday, 14 November 2015

(35ºC, 8mm)

  • A pack of about 13 wild dogs drinking water on EP open area
  • Anderson, the male leopard, resting at Shirley’s Crossing
  • The Tsalala lion pride resting on Kudu Drift
  • Five buffalo bulls resting at EP open area
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Horseshoe open area
Hyena and young - Dawie Jacobs

Hyena and young – Dawie Jacobs

Sunday, 15 November 2015

(33ºC, 10mm)

  • The Ximungwe lion pride feeding on a blue wildebeest on Simbambili Firebreak
  • One elephant bull feeding at Rhino Pan
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Rocky Road
  • Five buffalo bulls feeding on EP open area
  • A pack of about 14 wild dogs resting at Tamboti Crossing

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