Big 5 Sightings 30 May to 05 June 2016

by | Jun 6, 2016 | Weekly Big 5 Sightings | 4 comments

The Big 5 highlight of the week was too spending some real quality time with Salayexe, the female leopard and her daughter.

Salayexe and her cub - Dawie Jacobs

Salayexe and her cub – Dawie Jacobs

Monday, 30 May 2016
(28ºC)

  • Anderson, the male leopard, feeding on an impala kill on Madash Road
  • A breeding herd of about 200 buffaloes feeding on MMM South
  • Another breeding herd of about 100 buffaloes feeding on Safari driveway
  • Two lionesses of the Styx lion pride and four cubs resting on the eastern side of Ingwe Pan
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Little Gowrie driveway
  • Another breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding at Baboon Pan
  • A big breeding herd of about a 100 elephants drinking water at Big Dam

 

Tuesday, 31 May 2016
(27ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub resting at Leeukuil Pan
  • Anderson, the male leopard, feeding on an impala on Madash Road
  • A breeding herd of about ten elephants drinking water at Big Dam
  • Two buffalo bulls resting at Kraaines Pan
  • One unknown young male lion feeding on an impala kill on Simbambili firebreak
  • A breeding herd of about eighty elephants feeding on EP driveway
  • One elephant bull feeding on Ekiso Road
  • Another breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding on EP driveway

 

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
(28ºC)

  • One buffalo bull feeding on Wetpatch Road
  • One elephant bull feeding on Marula Bult Road
  • Two young male lions resting on the western side of Simbambili Dam
  • A breeding herd of about fifty elephants feeding on Pungwe Island
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Rampan open area
  • Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub, feeding on the grey duiker kill on Marula Bult Central Road
A big yawn from the Nkuhuma male lion - Dawie Jacobs

A big yawn from the Nkuhuma male lion – Dawie Jacobs

Thursday, 2 June 2016
(26ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub still feeding on the grey duiker kill on Marula Bult Central Road
  • A breeding herd of about forty elephants drinking water at Big Dam
  • Nsele, the female leopard’s two-year-old cub female cub resting on Robson’s boundary
  • Two breeding herd of buffaloes drinking water at Big Dam
  • Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Madash Road
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding around Simbambili Dam

 

Friday, 3 June 2016

(26ºC)

  • A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on MMM South Road
  • Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Ellie Alley
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Safari driveway
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Little Gowrie driveway
  • Two Birmingham male lions resting at Mhisi Mati
  • A breeding herd of about 200 buffaloes feeding on Zebra Drive
  • Another breeding herd of about fifty buffaloes drinking water at Safari Dam
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Seef’s Pan Road
  • One buffalo bull drinking water at Simbambili Dam
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants drinking water at One Eye Pan
  • Young Nkuhuma male lion resting on Sawmill Road
  • One young male lion resting at Gaby’s Pan

 

Saturday, 4 June 2016

(27ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard and her daughter playing around Eagle Owl Crossing
  • Three members of the Tsalala pride of lions resting on A-main
  • A breeding herd of about drinking water at Big Dam
  • Another breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding on Rhino Ring East
  • A breeding herd of about fifty buffaloes feeding on Rhino Ring East
  • Anderson, the male leopard moving east from Bushcamp East
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on EP open area
Buffalo having a drink - Dawie Jacobs

Buffalo having a drink – Dawie Jacobs

Sunday, 5 June 2016

(25ºC)

  • The independent daughter of Nsele, the female leopard resting on Robson’s boundary
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants drinking water Big Dam
  • Thandi, the female leopard, stalking a female Nyala on Road 47
  • Another breeding of about ten elephants feeding on Wetpatch Road
  • Four buffalo bulls resting in the water at Rhino Pan

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