Lessons From a Lion Hunting Buffalos
What started out as a fairly relaxed game drive going down into the southwestern grasslands in search of a large herd of buffalo, ended up being a morning that saw …
What started out as a fairly relaxed game drive going down into the southwestern grasslands in search of a large herd of buffalo, ended up being a morning that saw …
Lion dynamics have been up in the air over the past couple of months and change is bound to happen soon. With the Birmingham Males reaching an age where they …
Our game plan was lions. Lions sleeping, moving, or hunting would be ideal. The latter, even more so. Lions had been found in the morning so we went back to …
Iconic. Majestic. Awe-inspiring. Finding just one word to describe an intimate encounter with a lion in it’s prime is a near impossible task. For most people lions provide an intoxicating …
On a recent afternoon, we set off in search of leopard. Fortune would have it that we had some strong leads to follow in that a group of guests that …
We left camp with the distant sound of lions roaring in the south eastern parts of the reserve, an area where the Ntsevu pride has been dominant for some time …
Lions regularly spend time apart from their prides, either splintering into temporary small groups, females breaking off to look for males to mate with, or lionesses denning small cubs and …
The Creation Pinot Noir (a wine which has taken 450 million years to craft) is the latest addition to our wine list at Londolozi. Grown on ancient decomposed Bokkeveld shale …
A further look into the unbelievable video of a lioness climbing into a tree after a female leopard with a kill. We set off on an early morning game drive …
In last week’s TWIP I alluded to how the lions on and around Londolozi had “gone to ground”, so to speak. We just could not find any! Now, I do …
Just a short one today on a lion’s powers of recovery. The Nkuhuma young male of the Styx/Nkuhuma pairing was injured over a month ago, apparently by a wildebeest horn …
Seeing a male lion in the wild can be a truly awe-inspiring experience. These noble animals have captured the imagination of humans for millennia. A lion’s sheer size and strength, …
The male lion dynamics of the Sabi Sand Game Reserve – in particular Londolozi – have been thrilling over the past two decades. Dating back to the legendary Mapogo coalition …
In my previous blog about “How Old is That Lion?” I focused on a few different ways to estimate the age of cubs in particular. Now it is time to …