Lion Update: Familiar Fourways males?

Simon Smit May 19, 2015 14

Familiar (adjective) – ‘well known from long or close association’ – Oxford Dictionary The Fourways males have been mentioned in a blog post or two of late but are far …

Wildlife

Londolozi’s Winter Warmers for 2015

Kim Drake May 16, 2015 6

The thermometer dropped to 14°C in the early hours of this morning, and whilst it isn’t quite cold enough yet to reach for my beanie and gloves, summer is becoming …

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The Week in Pictures #180

Simon Smit May 15, 2015 9

The sound of the rut cuts the silence of the now cooling autumn mornings. Our ears prick up, as do those of any carnivore big enough to take advantage of …

The Week in Pictures Wildlife

Leopards: What We Can Learn from the Masters of Survival

Amy Attenborough May 14, 2015 17

“Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional”- Unkown Living at Londolozi and exploring its wilderness every day allows you the opportunity to witness the intimate details of animals lives, including …

Leopards Photography Wildlife

Collision Course

James Tyrrell April 21, 2015 19

Trouble is brewing in eastern Londolozi. Whilst over the past few months the Styx males looked set to inherit the kingdom from their fathers, there is a new threat pressing …

Wildlife

The Power of the Collective: What We Can Learn from the Pack

Amy Attenborough April 16, 2015 12

“Wild dogs know not the word ‘me’. They only know about ‘us’. Pack is poetry. ‘Loneliness’ only the dead know of. Wild dogs vocabulary is limited to collective nouns”- Heinrich …

Londolozi Family Photography Wildlife

Tsalala Pride at Play

James Tyrrell April 13, 2015 7

The Tsalala pride are a bit different to other prides. They like to move in the day. Even in the heat of Summer, they are seldom to be found in …

Wildlife

The Week in Pictures #176

James Tyrrell April 10, 2015 10

It’s been a while since it was my turn to do TWIP, so I stuck a couple of extra ones in from the backlog I was accumulating on my hard-drive. …

Photography The Week in Pictures

Playing Hard to Get: Revealing the Secretive Courtship Ritual of the White Rhino

Amy Attenborough April 9, 2015 7

The giant behemoth that is the White Rhinoceros just does not have the crooning love song or the social skills with the opposite sex that you may expect. Recently we …

Photography Wildlife

Buffalo Birth – Baring Witness To The Miracles Of The Wild

Trevor McCall-Peat March 31, 2015 5

The past two years of my guiding career here have been filled with many memorable experiences and have easily been the most incredible two years I have spent in the …

Wildlife

The Week In Pictures #174

Amy Attenborough March 27, 2015 24

Despite having had to deal with some of the harsh realities of the bush last week, where some rangers and guests witnessed a remarkable conflict between lions and wild dogs, …

Leopards Photography The Week in Pictures Wildlife

Lion Update: Tsalala Pride

James Tyrrell March 24, 2015 11

The young lioness of the Tsalala pride has a chip on her shoulder. The sole survivor of 8 cubs born to the two Tsalala sisters in 2011, she has had …

Wildlife

From Humble Beginnings to Great Things: Witnessing the First Footsteps of a Newborn Elephant

Amy Attenborough March 23, 2015 18

“Young royalty is protected behind pillars and trunks. Its world is guarded and small, but its future is huge”- Heinrich van den Berg For me there are no better words …

Photography Wildlife

The Week in Pictures #173

Simon Smit March 20, 2015 11

In the Week in Pictures you will notice that many of my images are taken in the Sand River or at waterholes where animals have come to drink – their predictable …

Photography The Week in Pictures

Sunday Stories

James Tyrrell March 15, 2015 7

On Friday we celebrated our one hundred and seventy-second Week in Pictures. It’s been over three years since this by now iconic part of the Londolozi Blog was launched and …

Sunday Stories

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