Big 5 Sightings 25 April to 1 May 2016

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The Big 5 highlight of the week was to see Anderson, the male leopard, feeding on a juvenile buffalo kill up in a tree on Our Southern Boundary.

Styx lioness - Dawie Jacobs

Styx lioness – Dawie Jacobs

Monday, 25 April 2016
(30ºC)

  • Anderson, the male leopard, resting with a young buffalo kill on Our Southern Boundary
  • Salayexe, the female leopard, resting up in a tree on Rhino Ring East
  • A breeding herd of about 200 buffalo’s resting on Central Road
  • Two lionesses from the Styx pride resting south of Treehouse Pan
  • Two buffalo bulls resting at Kraaines Pan

 

Tuesday, 26 April 2016
(26ºC)

  • Anderson, the male leopard still feeding on his young buffalo kill on Our Southern Boundary
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Madash Road
  • Quarantine, the male leopard, resting at 2nd Windmill Crossing
  • One buffalo bull feeding on Seepline Road
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants drinking water at Big Dam
  • Tingana, the male leopard, resting at Boerbean Pan

 

Wednesday, 27 April 2016
(27ºC)

  • Tingana, the male leopard, moving south from Safari airstrip
  • Four Birmingham male lions and two Styx female lionesses resting at Mhisi Mati
  • Karula, the female leopard, feeding on an impala kill with her two cubs at her den south of Gowrie Main
  • Thandi, the female leopard, resting on Treehouse Pan
Karula the female leopard - Dawie Jacobs

Karula the female leopard – Dawie Jacobs

Thursday, 28 April 2016
(31ºC)

  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Milkberry Road
  • One buffalo bull resting at Serengeti Pan
  • Salayexe, the female leopard, moving north from EP/Manyeleti Crossing
  • Three buffalo bulls resting at Baboon Pan
  • Karula, the female leopard still feeding on her impala kill with her two cubs south of Gowrie Main
  • One buffalo bull resting at Bushcamp Pan
  • Shadow, the female leopard, resting on Gowrie Main

 

Friday, 29 April 2016

(35ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard and her cub moving east from Drongo North
  • A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding at Rampan
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Wetpatch Road
  • Anderson, the male leopard, moving west from Pommies Pan
  • One buffalo bull resting at Bushcamp Pan
  • One elephant bull feeding on Simbambili Firebreak
  • Salayexe, the female leopard’s cub resting at Pungwe Island Crossing
  • Nine members from the Breakaway pride resting at Picanini Utah Pan

 

Saturday, 30 April 2016

(31ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard’s cub moving east from Kimbians Crossing
  • Nine members from the Breakaway pride feeding on a buffalo kill north of Picanini Utah Pan
  • Five members from the Tsalala pride resting on Kudu Drift
  • One elephant bull feeding at Rampan
  • Salayexe, the female leopard, feeding on a steenbok at Kimbians Crossing
  • One buffalo bull resting at Bushcamp Pan
Hyenas feeding on a wildebeest - Dawie Jacobs

Hyenas feeding on a wildebeest – Dawie Jacobs

Sunday, 1 May 2016

(32ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard, moving west from Marula Bult Central Road
  • Salayexe, the female leopard’s cub resting at Kimbians Crossing
  • Five members from the Tsalala pride feeding on a waterbuck kill on Kudu Drift
  • A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Serengeti open area
  • Eleven wild dogs moving north from Parallel Road
  • Nine members from the Breakaway pride feeding on a buffalo kill at Picanini Utah Pan
  • One buffalo bull resting at EP/Manyeleti Crossing

 

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