Wild Dog Den, The Pack is Back!
Having a pack of wild dogs den on Londolozi last year was a bitter-sweet pill to swallow. Wild dogs are phenomenal predators and to just merely have them on the …
Having a pack of wild dogs den on Londolozi last year was a bitter-sweet pill to swallow. Wild dogs are phenomenal predators and to just merely have them on the …
This week we have found ourselves concentrating around the scarce bodies of water in amongst a dry, tawny-brown landscape. This in conjunction with the dust and haze in the atmosphere …
Cheetahs are always a treat to find on Londolozi and recently we were fortunate enough to watch a mother and her sub-adult offspring. These youngsters are nearly fully grown and …
For the most part, when one thinks of male lions on Londolozi, the Birmingham coalition comes to mind. These are not the only male lions that hold territory on the …
Yet another week has come to an end in a year that is rapidly flying by. In attempting to summarise this week, it took a while for me to work …
If you scroll back in the blog archives to June 17th 2011 (ie. today’s date, ten years ago), you’ll see a small post titled The Week in Pictures #1. Thank …
“Why do zebra have stripes?” This is certainly a topic that has been covered numerous times, not only on the Londolozi blog but by most guests that come on safari …
We left camp with the distant sound of lions roaring in the south eastern parts of the reserve, an area where the Ntsevu pride has been dominant for some time …
Lions regularly spend time apart from their prides, either splintering into temporary small groups, females breaking off to look for males to mate with, or lionesses denning small cubs and …
Working at Londolozi you inevitably get to spend some quality time with different animals. On one occasion while we were watching a female leopard stalk an unsuspecting scrub hare, I …
One afternoon a few of us rangers went out to go and look for a large herd of buffalo that have been spending quite a lot of time in the …
Young rhino calves are always amazing to watch as the whole world is new and they go through their days handling the sensory overload. The young calf sticks very close …
With the weather in the afternoon being slightly cooler now, we left camp earlier than usual as we wanted to make the most of the afternoon with the hopes animals …
As a ranger, we can often put ourselves under unjust pressure when a guest arrives at Londolozi having been on safari numerous times before or having been somewhere else prior …
This week we start off with an afternoon with elephants as they quench their thirst at some of the larger waterholes on the reserve. Processionary caterpillars on a brisk morning …