Ximungwe Female Leopard vs Nweti Male vs Civet Kitten (Civet Wins)
A tiny Civet recently outlasted not just one but two leopards, in a serious game of patience. Stopping to look at some swallows that morning had resulted in us finding …
A tiny Civet recently outlasted not just one but two leopards, in a serious game of patience. Stopping to look at some swallows that morning had resulted in us finding …
A couple of years ago we published a post about whether or not leopards have favourite trees. The pivotal line in the post is probably the following: Leopards climb the …
The regularity with which female leopards feature in the Londolozi sightings book is linked to two main factors as far as I can tell: whether they have cubs and the …
Tracker Judas Ngomane and I were following wild dogs on a hunt. Andrea Sithole and Sersant Sibuyi had found them at Finfoot Crossing in the Sand River at first light. …
As we approached a herd of 80+ African Buffalo, tracker Bennet Mathonsi shouted, “Leopard! Leopard!”. Next to the buffalo? Surely not… He was right though. A young male leopard was a …
The hype around leopard cubs tends to focus around the younger ones. Which female has just given birth? Where is she denning? Can we see the cubs being carried? And …
The surviving cub of the Nanga female leopard was killed by lions this morning. Wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time seems to happen far too regularly for this female, and on the banks of the …
People who lose the use of one or more of their senses – particularly sight – will almost always find that to compensate, their other senses become heightened. Blind people …
Early 2016 was quite simply a ridiculous time to see leopard cubs on Londolozi. At one point the Nhlanguleni female was the only territorial female on the reserve to not be …
When a group of people with a combined bush experience of around 80 years is raving about how incredible a sighting was, you know it was pretty spectacular. We were …
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 …