Big 5 Sightings 12 to 18 December 2016

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The highlight of the weekly sightings was to see two male hippos fighting at Big Dam.

Two male hippos fighting – Louis Liversage

Monday, 12 December 2016
(28ºC, 5mm rain)

  • Tiyani, the female leopard, moving west from EP driveway
  • Two buffalo bulls resting on Ikiso Road
  • Two buffalo bulls resting at Serengeti Pan
  • A breeding herd of about hundred buffaloes feeding on Rocky Road
  • Two buffalo bulls resting on A-main
  • A breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on Central Road
  • Three lionesses from the Styx pride and their two cubs resting together with three Birmingham male lions on Wessels Old Driveway

 

Tuesday, 13 December 2016
(36ºC, 2mm rain)

  • Five lionesses from the Nkuhuma pride and their six cubs feeding on a buffalo kill on Horseshoe East
  • Tiyani, the female leopard, resting on EP airstrip
  • A breeding herd of about thirty buffaloes feeding on Rhulani Road
  • Tingana, the male leopard, mating with Kurula, the female leopard at Red Dam
  • A breeding herd of ten elephants feeding on Kudu Drift
  • Another breeding herd of about hundred buffaloes feeding on Sixes Road

 

Wednesday, 14 December 2016
(28ºC)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard, resting on Saseka Road
  • Five lionesses and six cubs of the Nkuhuma pride, drinking water at 2nd Windmill
  • A breeding herd of about hundred buffaloes resting at Serengeti Pan
  • A breeding herd of about ten elephants feeding on Guarri Central
  • Another breeding herd of about thirty elephants feeding on EP open area
  • One elephant bull feeding on Kudu Drift
  • Another breeding herd of about twenty elephants drinking water at Leeukuil
  • Sixteen lions of the Breakaway pride resting on Robson’s boundary

 

Styx cubs – Louis Liversage

Thursday, 15 December 2016
(32ºC, 2mm rain)

  • Salayexe, the female leopard, was chased up into a Jackelberry tree by four lions from the Tsalala pride at Big Dam
  • A breeding herd of about hundred buffaloes resting on Seepline Road
  • Five lionesses of the Nkuhuma pride resting on Wetpatch Road
  • A breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding south of Kraaines
  • Another breeding herd of about forty buffaloes feeding on Central Road
  • Salayexe, the female leopard, resting on Konkoni Road
  • Another breeding herd of about forty elephants feeding on Rhino Pan

 

Friday, 16 December 2016

(31ºC, 4mm)

  • Five lions of the Tsalala pride, feeding on a buffalo kill on Safari/Shirley’s cutline
  • Five lionesses of the Nkuhuma pride feeding on a buffalo kill on Rhulani Road
  • One elephant bull feeding on EP driveway
  • Anderson, the male leopard, resting on The Rocks
  • A breeding herd of about fifteen elephants feeding on Kudu Drift

 

Saturday, 17 December 2016

(26ºC)

  • Four lions from the Tsalala pride resting at Big Dam
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Rhino Ring West
  • Tingana, the male leopard, resting on Safari driveway
  • Five lionesses with six cubs from the Nkuhuma pride feeding on a buffalo kill on Mutsenzeleki Road
  • Another breeding herd of thirty elephants feeding on Kudu Drift

Salayexe, the female leopard – Louis Liversage

 

Sunday, 18 December 2016

(32ºC)

  • Five lionesses with six cubs from the Nkuhuma pride, feeding on another buffalo kill on Simbambili/Safari cutline
  • Shadow, the female leopard, resting on Simbambili firebreak
  • Kurula, the female leopard’s one cub resting east of Little Gowrie driveway
  • Three buffalo bulls resting at Tamboti Crossing
  • Four buffalo bulls resting on A-main
  • A breeding herd of about twenty elephants feeding on Ximungwe Road
  • Two buffalo bulls resting on Leadwood Road

 

 

 

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