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Stone Drift 3:2 Female

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Nkoveni 2:2 Female

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Three Rivers 2:2 Female

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Ross was born and raised in Durban, spending many a family holiday in the northern parts of KwaZulu Natal. It is here that his love and passion for the African Bush developed. He decided to combine his love of working with people and ...

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on What’s Been Happening With The Nkoveni Twins?

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What beautiful looking leopards. So glad they are thriving and doing well.

Fascinating to watch, thanks Ross for the update.

Nice update, Ross! I hope that all 3 manage to stay healthy and out of each other’s way!

Thanks for the update, Ross. I have a real soft spot for these 2 sisters, especially as we were privileged to watch them playing together for ages in February ’22. They chased one another round a dead knobthorn tree, and stole our hearts. Thanks as well for showing again Robert’s brilliant image of the 3 of them, always makes me smile!

Do you think all this pressure moving south might be what caused their mother and grandmother, the Mashaba female, to move back north toward her old territory near the camps?

You are so lucky to have so many beautiful cats in your area!

So glad to watch again the lovely trio in the opening pictures. It is just a perfect natural event… it would be interesting to know the ratio of lost leopards and newborns, especially counting the ones killed by poachers. I wish a bright future to all three leopardesses

Thanks for the update on the Nkoveni twins. Such beautiful images of the three of them together. Let’s hope that they will also be able to fall pregnant and keep their cubs safe and sound. As you say Ross there is under 40% chance of them ever getting to adulthood. I must say Nkoveni is a remarkable mother and she did well by securing that the twins grew up to adulthood. Pity she lost the next litter to the huge confrontation she had with the Three Rivers female. Well maybe she will pregnant again and she can twins again.

Beautiful young females, both of them.
I do hope that we can see them for a long time at Londolozi.
And that their mother will have more luck with another litter than with the one she lost during the fight with the Three Rivers female.

Thank you for the update Ross on these twins of Nkoveni female. What I found most interesting is that given they are from the same litter, spent all of their formative months together, that now independent they keep their distance, even expressing aggressive behavior if in the same vicinity. . Then on the other side of the big cat coin, female lion cubs exhibit opposite behavior most of the time, staying together with their siblings as they move on through their lives.

Very cool Ross!

I hope that all 3 girls will continue to do well and find their space to live and be healthy and free

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