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An Afternoon with the Xinzele Female

Nick Sims November 14, 2020 1 30

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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Flat Rock Male Jumping River Grant Rodewijk

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 1 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 1 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 2 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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Discovering a Leopard Den

James Souchon August 22, 2020 25

Right in the heart of the northern parts of the reserve lies a very special place. This place is called Marthly Pools and to some a game drive is incomplete …

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Anticipating the Jump

Guy Brunskill August 4, 2020 1 25

We had not even driven out of camp before we heard bushbuck alarming just outside the entrance. As we drove into the area we saw the bushbuck, who with their …

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The Mating Leopards that Eluded Us

Sean Zeederberg August 3, 2020 12

After hearing what sounded like two leopards mating in front of camp , a search party was deployed to find them. Switching the vehicle off periodically as we went was …

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Leopard Kill From my Back Door

Sean Zeederberg July 27, 2020 24

Without the full compliment of staff at the lodge, the village is a much quieter place. Most animals avoid humans, but since there are fewer of us around, it feels …

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Never Before Recorded Footage Of a Male Leopard Carrying a Cub

Pete Thorpe July 22, 2020 41

Male leopards are well-known to practice infanticide, i.e. killing cubs that are not their own offspring. This is well documented across large cat species. Once the cub has been killed, …

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