Leopard Update: Mashaba Young Female Reaching Independence?
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 …
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 …
In September three years ago we were enjoying some of the most spectacular lion viewing in recent memory, as the newly-named Mhangeni pride with their nine cubs were spending much of their time …
Two weeks ago we ran a post that looked at the possibility of the Mashaba female finally forcing her cub into independence. The reasons we cited were that she had …
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 …
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 …
2016 has reached its halfway mark, but before we launch into the second half of the year, we need to once again look back and recap some of the better photographic …
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir Another blog about the Mashaba female..surprised?! Yet again this leopard and her daughter have provided me …
Textbooks can be necessarily vague when it comes to giving facts and figures about wild animals, and when looking up the age of leopard independence, one will generally read that they …
In July 2015 our guide, Andrea Campbell, wrote a blog entitled “The Most Hardcore Animal in the Bush: the Female Leopard” and during our recent visit to Londolozi we enjoyed …
The birth of leopard cubs is always just cause for excitement levels to rise in the guiding team. When a leopard who was pregnant reappears after she hasn’t been seen …
The trickiest thing about a post like this is deciding which images to leave out, as the number of great images being taken by the Londolozi staff is phenomenal. Notice …
Photography is not linear, nor is its possibilities finite. Creativity is the key which opens endless doors to achieving a dynamic array of photographs, images or memories caught in illustration. …
The Mhangeni pride are not what they once were. The younger members of the pride are essentially doing what their mothers did once upon a time, breaking off and operating …
Looking back on the events of last week, we can be reminded that nothing in the bush is ever constant. The fall of one being gives rise to an army …
This week was defined by the events that unfolded around Sable Boma Pan, a small waterhole near the Londolozi airstrip. An old giraffe bull, well into the twilight of his …