How Do Elephants Respond To Leopards And Lions
Elephants may be the biggest of all creatures found on land, but believe it or not, even they can react defensively around large predators. For example, a herd of elephants …
Elephants may be the biggest of all creatures found on land, but believe it or not, even they can react defensively around large predators. For example, a herd of elephants …
The literature talks about the low percentage of successful lion hunts. 15-25%. At a push. Lions can and do go a long time without food. A week without a solid …
The big question that we all have is could one of the Ntsevu Pride lionesses be infertile? Five of the six lionesses in the pride have had cubs over the …
The Tsalala female has been conspicuous by her absence. We ran a story on her a couple of weeks ago featuring a big altercation between her and a clan of …
Sometime during early morning coffee, before the sun had risen in the east, the Tsalala lioness killed an adult wildebeest bull only two hundred metres from the Londolozi Camps. No …
[Editor’s Note: This post was recently found in the Draft folder of Londolozi blog posts from early 2018. For some reason it never got published at the time of writing. …
This is more for the first-time safari-goer, so if you have been to the bush a couple of times, you’ll probably already know it. Lions sleep a lot. This is …
A phrase many will be familiar with is, “You win or you learn”. In the African bush, the harsh reality is that the learning part can sometimes be substituted by …
It’s roughly five o’clock in the morning and the Sand River valley has already begun to heat up. The usual chorus of bird calls is interrupted by a deep, rolling …
I am woken at 03h30 by a single male lion calling. It does not sound that close, so being woken by these calls surprises me as I am normally a …
I am not adventurous by nature. In fact, a flickering shadow can send shocks of adrenaline racing through my veins. That is why daily safaris in search of the world’s …
“We are not looking for the meaning of life we are looking for the feeling of being alive” ~ Joseph Cambell At Londolozi tracking has been in our DNA for …
The Birmingham coalition is officially down to two. The injured male succumbed to his ailing health and died in the Sand River during the middle of last week. He had …
On a recent safari with guest Jackson Steele, his wife and friends, one sighting in particular stood out for us all. Jackson takes us through it below: Game Drive #5 …
The Tsalala lioness has been confining her movements almost exclusively to the Sand River. The thickets provide perfect cover in which to hide her cub and hunt, and the game …