Reflecting Back on the Nhlanguleni Female
Over the past few months, the Nhlanguleni Female has been absent from Londolozi. No tracks called in on her usual routes. No unexpected encounters leaving or returning to camp. For …
Over the past few months, the Nhlanguleni Female has been absent from Londolozi. No tracks called in on her usual routes. No unexpected encounters leaving or returning to camp. For …
This week has had some incredible moments, although punctuated with some rainy days and surprisingly cool mornings, it certainly has felt like two seasons over the last 7 days. On …
Before coming to Londolozi ten years ago, I’d already been guiding for a few years. I understood animal behaviour, and I knew how the theory of habituation worked in practice. …
Big week. And I’m going to start with Nkoveni because there’s a lot to unpack. She’s lost one of her cubs. I’ll address that in the episode. But the remaining …
If I had to name the most polarising animal in the bushveld, it would be the spotted hyena. Some people light up the moment one appears, while others look at …
This week’s selection is a bit of a team effort. Stoff Kane-Berman, our Managing Director, simply cannot help himself when it comes to getting out into the bush, and with …
This week I kept finding myself watching animals navigate the gap between where they are and where they’re going. It started at the wild dog den. The pups are getting …
There are certain places at Londolozi that seem to collect stories. Ximpalapala Koppie is one of them. Rising from the surrounding landscape in a series of enormous granite boulders, the …
Another week in the Londolozi wilderness has come and gone, and as we continue through the heart of winter, the reserve seems to offer up some of the finest conditions …
Let me set the scene. Two leopards. Dense thicket. The female crouched low, the male mounting, biting down on the nape of her neck. Ten seconds of snarling, growling chaos. …
This week had more lion drama than I was expecting. It started with the Kambula Pride on a wildebeest carcass not far from camp. The hyenas arrived first, calling for …
When I wrote an update on the Ndzanzeni Female earlier this year, there was still a quiet optimism that she would once again emerge from the thickets of the Deep …
Winter in the bush has a way of slowing down time just enough for you to take it all in. The crisp morning air, the golden low-angled light framing wide …
“The animal shall not be measured by man.” — Henry Beston. There are leopards you see. And then there are leopards you know. The Mashaba Female was the second kind. …
We found them. After six weeks of following this story, the search, the suckle marks, the morning I left her at 150 metres knowing exactly what I was walking away …