The Week in Pictures #326
Dawn and dusk provide the most spectacular colours in the bush. There are so many different wild and natural features out here which have the potential to provide perfect opportunities …
Dawn and dusk provide the most spectacular colours in the bush. There are so many different wild and natural features out here which have the potential to provide perfect opportunities …
As some of you may have noticed from posts in the last couple of weeks, the Mashaba Young female leopard is no longer being referred to as that. She is …
The Mashaba young female was born in May 2015 and is now fully independent, yet has not established a territory for herself. Nomadic around the fringes of her mothers territory …
With 2017 seeing the senior leopard population of Londolozi taking some serious blows, in the form of the Piva male’s and Xidulu female’s deaths, both killed by the Avoca male …
Tracks of a male leopard were called in, heading downstream in a dry riverbed. Great, we had a lead to work with! Bennet (the vastly experienced tracker that I work …
The real value of a platform like this one (the Blog) is that the longer it runs for, the more it increases in value as an archive of information. By …
Londolozi is synonymous with leopards. Since the early 70’s, these magnificent cats have been drawing guests to our camps from all over the globe to view and photograph them in …
The Tamboti female leopard had had a successful day, killing a vervet monkey in the morning, which she dragged to her 10-month old cub for it to feed on, and …
One thing you learn fairly quickly as a ranger or tracker out here is how risky it is to get attached to a wild animal, particularly a cub. With the …
Many of you will remember the late Xidulu female, who was killed earlier this year by the two Avoca male lions. We discussed the survival chances of the two offspring …
No we’re not having a competition to see who can come up with the most obscure title for a post. I was having coffee with a friend recently and were …
Various animal species from leopards, lions and zebras to penguins, manta rays and whale sharks, have individually unique spot patterns or natural markings which are useful in identifying individuals within …
The first Week in Pictures for 2018… What a treat! The infamous New Years Eve party was a good attempt at keeping some of us from getting up early, but …
The problem with reporting on stages of the lives of individual animals is that after a number of posts, it might start savoring of repetition. When lions reach a certain …
Yesterday you may have read Guy Brunskill’s account of our crazy morning game drive. Below is the remainder of that story… In the frenzy, the wild dogs ran off and …