Ntsevu Lioness Mates With Othawa Male
The big question that we all have is could one of the Ntsevu Pride lionesses be infertile? Five of the six lionesses in the pride have had cubs over the …
The big question that we all have is could one of the Ntsevu Pride lionesses be infertile? Five of the six lionesses in the pride have had cubs over the …
The Tsalala female has been conspicuous by her absence. We ran a story on her a couple of weeks ago featuring a big altercation between her and a clan of …
On a warm afternoon we set out with the specific intention of finding and appreciating some of the smaller inhabitants of the bush. The Sand River was running strongly, and …
This week we properly introduce someone whose photography suggests that he has been at it for far longer than just the year he has had a camera. Mrisho Lugenge joined …
It’s roughly five o’clock in the morning and the Sand River valley has already begun to heat up. The usual chorus of bird calls is interrupted by a deep, rolling …
I am woken at 03h30 by a single male lion calling. It does not sound that close, so being woken by these calls surprises me as I am normally a …
The Mhangeni pride of lions is, at this point, one of the most viewed prides in the Sabi Sand Reserve. The adult females are eleven years old and were born …
September and October don’t often have a lot of status attached to them in the South African Lowveld. Winter is June/July August (cold and dry), and Summer is December/January/February, defined …
The Birmingham coalition is officially down to two. The injured male succumbed to his ailing health and died in the Sand River during the middle of last week. He had …
There are many iconic rivalries in the wilds of Africa, some factual, some a bit more imagined. Lions and buffalo, leopards and baboons (leopards generally don’t bother with baboons at …
Sometimes in the process of harvesting content from the guiding team, things get accidentally filed away and forgotten. I’m a firm believer in never passing up the opportunity to display …
We didn’t manage to fit in a September memory lane post last month – too much content coming out of the rest of the lodge – but for the sake …
Firstly, the answer to this week’s Bird ID challenge… The correct answer was a female Lesser Masked Weaver. Female weavers are notoriously difficult to ID, but in the case of …
The Tsalala lioness has been confining her movements almost exclusively to the Sand River. The thickets provide perfect cover in which to hide her cub and hunt, and the game …