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The Nhlanguleni Female Takes the Leap

Guy Brunskill January 7, 2021 1 15

Andrea Sithole and I had been in search of wild dogs. We had driven practically every road until we met up on the last one, which neither of us had …

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Three Leopards in a Tree

Guy Brunskill December 22, 2020 24

For close to a month we had had no sign of the cub of the Makomsava female. Some had started losing hope that the cub was still alive, until Tayla …

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The Return of the Makhotini Male

Tayla Brown December 9, 2020 1 20

We set out early one morning with the intention of trying to find a cheetah. As we got closer to where one had been seen the day before we spotted …

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The Nhlanguleni Female Explores the Sand River Boulders

Guy Brunskill December 2, 2020 1 24

It was the final morning for guests Shaun and Carolyn, who had flown 22 hours from America to stay with us for 4 days. While sipping on a hot cup …

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Where are the Makomsava Cubs?

James Tyrrell November 24, 2020 15

Ask Ranger Tayla Brown and Tracker Freddy Ngobeni; they’ve turned the area inside out looking for these elusive leopards. Summer is here and with it have come all the things …

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An Afternoon with the Xinzele Female

Nick Sims November 14, 2020 29

The last few weeks at Londolozi can only be described as superb. The recent rains coupled with the warm weather have launched the bush into summer and the sightings of …

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Habituating a Leopard Cub

James Tyrrell October 31, 2020 19

It’s a beautiful thing winning the trust of a wild animal, especially one as enigmatic and vulnerable as a leopard cub. It’s certainly not that they begin to trust you, …

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ANOTHER Leopard Cub: This One Shouldn’t Exist

James Tyrrell October 13, 2020 1 40

Speechless. That was the word that leaped to mind. When Managing Director Chris Kane-Berman reported a leopard with a 3-4 month old cub on a kill a couple of kilometres …

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Is the Flat Rock Male Moving On?

James Tyrrell October 7, 2020 2 22

In the harsh world of nature in which a happy ending is a rarity, every so often an animal does catch a break. The Flat Rock male’s arrival at Londolozi, …

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Why Leopards are Like Hermit Crabs

James Tyrrell October 6, 2020 1 15

Well, they’re not. In appearance, anatomy, habitat, size… literally nothing about them is similar apart from the fact that they are both organic life forms. BUT…when their place of residence …

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The Leopard Outside My Office

James Tyrrell October 1, 2020 26

The barking of bushbuck is a fairly regular background noise at the Londolozi camps. Sometimes it’s just a couple of males barking at each other, but quite often it indicates …

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Has the Inyathini Male Gone From Londolozi Forever?

James Tyrrell September 10, 2020 36

A lot has happened in 2020. The world kind of got turned on its head, and people’s attention was necessarily on global events rather than the quiet demise of a …

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Update on the Makomsava Female and Her Cubs

Guy Brunskill September 5, 2020 1 31

Pete Thorpe was extremely fortunate to be in the right place recently, watching the Makomsava female move dens. The new site is only about a hundred meters from the previous …

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Makomsava Female Carries Her Cubs To New Den

Pete Thorpe August 27, 2020 21

It is just days since we discovered the den in which the Makomsava female was hiding her cubs. The view was tricky, to say the least. If the mother was …

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Three Rivers Female mates with Senegal Bush Male

James Souchon August 26, 2020 17

Two leopards that we haven’t seen much until the last few months have been the Senegal Bush Male and the Three Rivers female so to have had them together mating …

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