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The Week in Pictures #489

James Tyrrell April 23, 2021 17

It’s been a fairly heavy leopard week, with a couple of Londolozi’s better known individuals taking centre stage. As spectacular as isolated sightings can be, seeing the same leopard on …

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A Treasured Moment With the Ximungwe Female and Her Cub

Tayla Brown April 22, 2021 1 27

One evening on our way back to camp, we came across the Ximungwe female leopard. She was making her way into an area that we knew she had been making …

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A Leopard Cub’s Adventure

Jess Shillaw April 20, 2021 21

Many guests have asked me what do leopard cubs do when their mother leaves them at their den site? The mother leopard, in this case the Picadilly female will leave …

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Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd

Kyle Gordon April 14, 2021 3 34

The end of 2020 saw many a guiding team (ranger and tracker) and their guests viewing an unusually high number of mating pairs of leopards around Londolozi, which is very …

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New Leopard Cubs

Guy Brunskill April 13, 2021 1 33

As I’m sure many of you read in Chris Taylor’s recent TWIP, he mentions the finding of not one but two new leopards dens. The Ximungwe and Nhlanguleni females have …

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Morning Patrol with the Senegal Bush Male

Chris Taylor April 10, 2021 1 19

Rainy and windy conditions, of which we have had a fair amount of late, do not bode well for leopard viewing. The elusive felines often choose to hunker down in …

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An Unexpectedly Eventful Drive To The Airport

Tayla Brown March 22, 2021 1 7

We left camp at 5am as we had to get to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (about two hours away) for my guests to catch an early flight home. Shortly after …

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Where is the Tatowa Female?

Chris Taylor March 16, 2021 1 25

I was recently asked in the comments section of one of my blog posts on the whereabouts of the Tatowa female. Quite honestly, she hadn’t really crossed my mind since …

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Does the Ximungwe Female Have Cubs?

Guy Brunskill March 2, 2021 1 38

We had not seen the Ximungwe female for well over a month. For a female who was seen very often on the reserve – in fact almost certainly our most …

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An Afternoon With the Flat Rock Male

Chris Taylor February 18, 2021 1 20

The Flat Rock male has been rather scarce of late. We suspect that he was partly stranded north of the Sand River which until a few days ago would have …

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The Original Leopard Trackers

Alex Van Den Heever February 16, 2021 22

Alex van den Heever and Renias Mhlongo were one of Londolozi’s most formidable ranger/tracker partnerships. Working together for many years, they introduced countless guests to the magic of the African …

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My First Time Seeing One of Londolozi’s Royal Family of Leopards

Tayla Brown February 11, 2021 1 24

There are many leopards at Londolozi. Some that we get to see regularly and then a few that are very seldom encountered; this latter group includes one particular leopard, the …

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Ticking off one of Those Guiding “Lifers”

Sean Zeederberg February 4, 2021 20

Whether it be as a guide, a well-seasoned safari goer, a first timer or an avid birder, we all have a list of things we really wish to see. These …

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The Nkuwa Female Leopard

Dean De La Rey January 28, 2021 1 20

Having recently gone through my photos, I discovered that almost 90 percent of my recent leopard images are of the Nkuwa female. First, some background on this leopard… Her name …

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Leopards Mating in a Riverbed

Sean Zeederberg January 21, 2021 1 17

As the circle of life requires both rebirth alongside death, it is fascinating how these emotional events capture our attention and we have a strong desire to witness them. It …

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