Have You Ever Seen Genets Mate Before?
At Londolozi you don’t have to go very far to see wildlife and interact with nature. Guest, Sumei Shum, can attest to this having watched something incredibly rare, right from …
At Londolozi you don’t have to go very far to see wildlife and interact with nature. Guest, Sumei Shum, can attest to this having watched something incredibly rare, right from …
Towards the end of 2015, James Tyrrell asked the question “Do leopards have favourite trees?”. Since then, this has been hotly debated, with opinions varying between rangers, trackers and textbooks and …
With the drought – that thankfully we slowly seem to be emerging from – having made for incredible predator-prey interactions, the birding world was sometimes overlooked, but over the course of the last few seasons a …
There are no real photos to show in this post. There aren’t many stories to tell. Sightings have been so scarce and fleeting that that in itself is the story. In …
In order to get great images most photographers are required to spend a great deal of time getting to know their cameras, learning to understand light, glueing their eyes to …
A sight eternally etched into my memory involves the fleeting glimpse of leopard rosettes darting through a thicket only a meter ahead of a lioness and the rest of her …
Many rangers, in collaboration with their trackers, tend to have a general plan when they leave camp of what they’re going to look for on a game drive based on …
There have been quite a few sightings of leopards mating at Londolozi over the last month. In fact, the Piva male was seen mating with the Nkoveni female only a …
What happens when you throw together a nocturnal predator, an unsuspecting nyala, a ranger and two managers/wannabe trackers? The answer: our very own version of Londolozi Cluedo! A few nights ago …
Londolozi has always taken much pride in its family values and its involvement with the surrounding communities. The hard work put in by the early pioneers and founders was passed down …
Former Londolozi Head Ranger Oliver Sinclair was recently visiting with his family. Ollie is renowned for his knack of discovering new leopard litters, and although there were no females with secluded …
“How do you become a man in a world that doesn’t require courage?” – Sebastian Junger “Puuushh!” Keegan’s voice has become guttural. It’s effective. The five of us simultaneously dig …
The highlight of this week was not a sighting itself but the way in which tracker Jerry Hambana spotted the Tutlwa female (picture 3) a couple of days ago. I …
Tracking can sometimes be a painstaking process; if only one tracker is working a set of tracks, and the terrain is tricky, he or she will often be forced to …
I don’t want to go into too much of the physics here, so don’t expect talk of pitch and decibels and wavelengths. Although I suppose that these attributes of a lion’s …