Virtual Safari: The Week in Video #29
A whole spectrum of wildlife was encountered this week, with probably the most intense sighting being the Ntsevu pride stealing a kill from a young female leopard. As we head …
A whole spectrum of wildlife was encountered this week, with probably the most intense sighting being the Ntsevu pride stealing a kill from a young female leopard. As we head …
Those of you who follow our virtual safaris might have seen one of our recent stories documenting a couple of hours at waterhole, in which a large herd of buffalos …
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 …
By far the majority of the declarations about the local wildlife you’ll hear from your ranger/tracker team are empirical. That is, they are based on observation. Granted, there is a …
The Birmingham male with the injured hip is impressive, to say the least. Not on account of his size (he’s semi-emaciated), or his hunting prowess (I doubt he’s pulled down …
My wife and I just returned home from a week at Londolozi. We went, primarily, to see elephants. Elephants make my wife weep; they stir our souls; they touch our …
The difference between “endangered” and “vulnerable” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List is subtle, but essentially it has to do with a species’ odds 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 …
I saw a buffalo recently that had a broken leg. It was a bull that had clearly been in a fight with another bull. The opponent stood closer to us …
There is a very small impala lamb that has been seen over the last few days just to the west of Pioneer Camp. Since the local impala lambing is seasonal, and …
As we approached a herd of 80+ African Buffalo, tracker Bennet Mathonsi shouted, “Leopard! Leopard!”. Next to the buffalo? Surely not… He was right though. A young male leopard was a …
With the sixteen-strong Mangheni pride spending most of their time west of Londolozi we had not had a sighting of them on Londolozi soil for a couple of weeks. When …
It is well-established that leopards will hoist their kills into trees to get them out of reach of hyenas and lions. Many times we have watched the Leopards of Londolozi …
Tracker Freddy Ngobeni and I set off with our guests one afternoon with the intention of finding buffalo. We had heard reports of a fairly large herd on the western side …
If you have ever had the privilege of watching elephants in the wild, you would undoubtedly agree that it is a rewarding experience. Their lives revolve around family. Watch a …