A Hyena Does Something Strange
Hyenas have always had a reputation of being strange animals. They are one of the few mammal species which have a matriarchal society, in which the females possess genitals which …
Hyenas have always had a reputation of being strange animals. They are one of the few mammal species which have a matriarchal society, in which the females possess genitals which …
There are very few who have done as much in their lives as Pete Fleck already has. Followers of the Londolozi Blog will remember Pete from 2014, when we competed …
I don’t know what I expected but it certainly wasn’t what we got… It was late in the morning and myself along with two other rangers (Fin and Kevin) and …
We set out on morning game drive with a typical initial plan in mind; look for lions. Barely 15 minutes in though, tracker Freddy Ngobeni suddenly raised his hand for me to …
I know how in the modern world we can be slaves to convenience, but with time being of the essence in so many facets of our existence these days, the …
There’s a certain tree scattered across Londolozi’s landscape whose many names – the buffalo thorn, blink-blaar-wag-‘n-bietjie (Afrikaans for “shiny-leaf wait-a-bit”), umLahlabantu (Zulu for “that which buried the chief”), and mbafa …
The exciting news is that we think the Tsalala Tailless lioness might have given birth to cubs. She has not had much luck in raising litters over the last five …
A couple of years ago I was very lucky enough to do a road trip from South Africa all the way up to Uganda and back. Together with four other …
A couple of weeks ago we ran a post featuring some of the best of long-standing guest, Tony Goldman’s bird images. We promised a follow-up post in which we’d feature …
For those of you who have visited Londolozi, you will know that the soups we serve are some of the best in the Lowveld, South Africa, and as some guests have …
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now” – Chinese Proverb Over the last two months I have been fortunate enough …
Trying to understand lion dynamics in the central Sabi Sands at the moment is a bit like trying to understand quantum physics. Beyond the understanding of most people, and even for …
Now that we have officially moved out of Summer and into Autumn or Fall, we have started to notice that the days are getting just a little bit shorter and …
This morning I think we had our first actual traffic jam on Londolozi. With the river flowing quite strongly, and the Pink Pouch having changed hands a couple of times …
September 2nd, 2015 was the day on which the first sighting of a Matimba male lion was officially recorded on Londolozi soil. Although from their tracks we knew they’d been …