Reflecting Back on the Nhlanguleni Female
Over the past few months, the Nhlanguleni Female has been absent from Londolozi. No tracks called in on her usual routes. No unexpected encounters leaving or returning to camp. For …
Over the past few months, the Nhlanguleni Female has been absent from Londolozi. No tracks called in on her usual routes. No unexpected encounters leaving or returning to camp. For …
Lions aren’t supposed to be good at this. That’s the old story anyway. Leopards live in the trees, lions stay on the ground, and the two don’t swap roles. So …
The wild dogs moved den this week. Packed up and shifted 400 metres east, as if the old place had simply run its course. We caught up with them at …
This has been said at the start of every entry in this series, and it stays true. There is a weird kind of obsession that takes hold of people who …
Having just got back from leave recently, one of the first things I wanted to catch up on was what the Xinkhova Female has been up to, and it sounds …
When the Makhotini coalition of two young male cheetahs were found late the previous afternoon, they were on the far southern end of the reserve, and we were on the …
The Xinkhova Female is pregnant. Two drives, two days in a row, and by the second one there was absolutely no ambiguity about what I was looking at. A very …
This week has had some incredible moments, although punctuated with some rainy days and surprisingly cool mornings, it certainly has felt like two seasons over the last 7 days. On …
Reece was back with us for a short stint recently, and boy did he pick a good week for it. On one of the morning drives, he was following the …
Before coming to Londolozi ten years ago, I’d already been guiding for a few years. I understood animal behaviour, and I knew how the theory of habituation worked in practice. …
Big week. And I’m going to start with Nkoveni because there’s a lot to unpack. She’s lost one of her cubs. I’ll address that in the episode. But the remaining …
This week’s selection is a bit of a team effort. Stoff Kane-Berman, our Managing Director, simply cannot help himself when it comes to getting out into the bush, and with …
The wait is almost over. The release of our third and final film – A Shared Humanity: The Story of an African Village is two weeks away. It is dedicated …
This has been said at the start of every entry in this series, and it stays true. There is a weird kind of obsession that takes hold of people who …
There are some leopards you see often enough that they become part of the fabric of the reserve. Others remain elusive appearing only every now and then before disappearing back …