Photographic Journal: Tony Goldman’s Highlights #2
Just over a week ago we ran our first post of Londolozi guest Tony Goldman’s photo highlights. Today we are publishing the second instalment of the photographs he was kind …
Just over a week ago we ran our first post of Londolozi guest Tony Goldman’s photo highlights. Today we are publishing the second instalment of the photographs he was kind …
This isn’t the first time a group of lions has split from their natal pride and formed a new one. Nor will it be the last. Environmental conditions and pressures …
My views on the relative intelligence levels of the various animals out here oscillate wildly. I’ve seen lions execute a perfect strategic ambush that had to have involved forethought, yet …
The Birmingham males now seem to be firmly established as the dominant male coalition on Londolozi, despite not really venturing into the northern sectors of the reserve yet. Although other …
We would all love to climb back into the years where naps are a necessity to any day, naked adventures are as natural as the clothed ones, the only password …
Anthropomorphism is something I tend to disagree with. The attributing of human characteristics to an animal just doesn’t fit in my mind, as who are we to say that a …
This post is not about lions, so I apologise if the title image is misleading. Lions certainly have their role to play, but are in no ways central to the …
Few campfires in Africa – or indeed anywhere – have had so much history stem from their flames as the one that still burns in Londolozi’s Varty Camp, over 90 …
Tony Goldman is a long-standing guest and friend of Londolozi. Many of you will recognize his name from the Londolozi Blog, as his stunning photographs have featured a number of …
The impala breeding season, known as the rut, is that time of year when impala rams are flooded with testosterone; that time of the year when all their attention is …
The most incredible leopard cub viewing at Londolozi was early 2017. All but one of the territorial females were raising young, and a sighting of a female without her cubs almost …
What value is there in banging your head against a tree all day long? For us, very little. For woodpeckers, plenty! In essence, the value lies in the fact that …
Tools. Humans have historically differentiated ourselves from the “lesser creatures” through our ability to make and use tools, which has apparently put us on a higher plane of intelligence. However, …
I was browsing through some old photos the other day and cam across a couple of one of Londolozi’s lesser known snakes; the Vine Snake. Or Twig snake. Or Bird …
Over a year ago, the two huge Matimba male lions simply packed up and left. Reports filtered in of them heading north, back to their old stomping grounds. Then nothing was …