Big 5 Sightings 03-09 December 2012

The Big 5 highlight of the week was seeing a big bull elephant with huge tusks. It is not often that we see such great tuskers around!

Big elephant bull - Willie Woest

Monday, 3 December 2012

(19 ºC)

• Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub, feeding on a juvenile impala kill, north of EP/Manyeleti Crossing
• Twenty to thirty buffalo bulls and one cow drinking water at Baboon Pan
• Shadow, the female leopard, stalking impalas on Bee Eater Road
• A pack of eleven wild dogs resting just east of Seef’s Pan
• Two male cheetahs resting on a termite mount on Kaalkol open area

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

(20 ºC and 14mm of rain)

• One elephant bull moving south from Leeukuil
• A pack of eleven wild dogs moving west on our southern boundary
• Two buffalo bulls wallowing in the water at Rhino Pan
• Three buffalo resting on Rhino Ring East, south of The Rocks
• Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub, playing in a weeping wattle tree on Marula Bult

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

(32 ºC)

• A pack of eleven wild dogs chasing and killing two impala lambs close to the lodge
• One elephant bull feeding on the fire break east of Xinzele Road
• A breeding herd of elephant of about twenty elephant feeding around Shirley’s Crossing
• Tingana, the male leopard walking on A-main and Shirley’s open area
• A herd of twenty elephants feeding behind Safari dam wall
• One elephant bull and three cows feeding north on Grasscut Road
• Four buffalo bulls resting in the Serengeti Pan

Hyena's playing next to water hole - Willie Woest

Thursday, 6 December 2012

(27 ºC)

• Moya, the female leopard hunting impala on A-main
• Pack of twelve wild dogs eating an impala on Jerry Drive
• Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub, with an impala kill east of Marula Bult South
• Herd of twenty elephants wallowing in the mud close to Leadwood Road
• One buffalo bull resting in the mud south of Leeukuil
• Three buffalo bulls laying in the water hole in front of E.P lodge

Friday, 7 December 2012

(31 ºC and 17mm of rain)

• Elephant bull feeding West on Robson’s boundary
• Twelve wild dogs moving North into Vuyatela from Little Gowrie
• Lemula, the male leopard, resting off Grasscut Road
• Salayexe, the female leopard, hunting impala in the Wetpatch block
• Elephant bull drinking water at Big Dam
• One buffalo bull resting in the water in front of E.P lodge

Saturday, 8 December 2012

(32 ºC and 1 mm of rain)

• One elephant bull walking around Big Dam
• Herd of ten elephants feeding east of Manyeleti room
• Elephant bull drinking water at Bushcamp Pan
• One Nkuhuma male lion eating a tortoise on E.P drive way
• Herd of eighteen elephants feeding on Marula Bult Central

Zebra - Louis Liversage

Sunday, 9 December 2012

(32 ºC)

• One Matimba male lion and one Nkuhuma lioness resting on Southern Fork Road
• Herd of thirty elephants feeding on Pungwe open area
• One buffalo bull resting at Big Dam
• Herd of fifteen elephants feeding East on Methlowani open area