Secret Life of a Serval

Adam Bannister April 20, 2011 3

At Londolozi we are blessed with incredible big 5 sightings. One thing we don’t see very often are Serval! We had just witnessed a phenomenal lion hunt and were on …

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Tsalala Cubs Start Eating Impalas

Adam Bannister April 15, 2011 2

The two Tsalala Pride Females are completely in control of things at the moment! In the last 4 days they seem to have set up camp at Nanga Pan; using …

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Dudley Riverbank 5:5 Means Business!

Adam Bannister April 1, 2011 1 12

The Dudley Riverbank 5:5 Male is becoming a force to be reckoned with. We followed him for over an hour watching him scent mark, urinate, scrape and call numerous times …

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Three’s a Crowd – Mating Leopards

Rich Laburn October 20, 2010 2 16

We were heading south towards the Sand River when we spotted the Camp Pan male lying on the causeway. Before we could reach him, Tyson, the dominant male leopard from …

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A Brief History of the Tsalala Pride

Rich Laburn October 13, 2010 12

After our previous blog post on The Demise of the Tsalala Pride, former Londolozi Head Ranger, Oliver Sinclair, wrote up a brief history of the Tsalala Pride to fill in …

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What Everybody Ought to Know About Hyenas

Rich Laburn October 6, 2010 5

In the last 4 weeks I have witnessed both the cuter and more aggressive side of the spotted hyena. These misunderstood carnivores are unlike any other animal I have spent …

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An Elephant Birth for an Elephant Whisperer

Rich Laburn September 30, 2010 3

Martha Beck must have a strange attraction for elephants. The last time she was at Londolozi she had an interesting conversation with our ‘resident’ bull (Nightshift) and this time around …

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Maxabeni Brothers Chased off Kudu Kill

Rich Laburn September 20, 2010 10

About a year ago I filmed the Maxabeni 3:2 young male leopard catch and haul a small duiker up a Marula tree. At one year of age, this sub-adult male …

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EXCLUSIVE – New Leopard Cub Caught on Camera

Rich Laburn September 10, 2010 8

Serendipity is a funny thing…at once exciting yet at the same time a mystery giving us new opportunities when we weren’t looking for them, it wafts in and out of …

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How motherhood works

Rich Laburn January 14, 2010 4 1

The bonds between this mother and her cubs are now stronger than ever. She humors them, nurtures them and pays each one its own special piece of attention. Her killer …

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Growing into adulthood – 3:2 and the blind hyena

Rich Laburn November 11, 2009 2

The 3:2 Maxabeni Young Male had sharpened his instincts. He saw the hyena coming from the other side of the river. Tensing his muscular body into the tall grass, he …

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Contentment and the Camp Pan Male

Rich Laburn October 30, 2009 1 7

The Sand River was behind us when the the impala carcass caught our attention. Hanging stripped and soulless in a Jackalberry tree, the scene was surrounded only by fresh tracks …

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Tusker – Africa’s Great Elephant Lineage

Rich Laburn October 27, 2009 0

My jaw dropped when I saw the elephant bull. Big and graceful, he was astounding. There was, however, something more….an additional feature that really spoke to me. He turned his …

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One Life

Rich Laburn October 24, 2009 5

In the early morning mist a stifled distress call of an impala ewe echoed through the dry bush signaling her demise. The slender female leopard dragged it for a few …

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The First of the Spring Babies

Rich Laburn October 16, 2009 3

The big eyes made me stop momentarily. I took a pace back and stared inside the thicket. In between streams of dappled sunlight, those two innocent ovals peered back at …

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