What is Happening With the Tsalala Lioness?
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A pair of sub-adult male lions have been hanging around Londolozi of late, getting into a bit more trouble than they bargained for. I’ll be the first to admit that …
The dream had to end sometime. We don’t want to start everyone’s week off with bad news, but yesterday we received reports that the Tsalala lioness’s cubs had been attacked …
First up (and I apologise here as this post was initially published without this information; I added it subsequently), the identity of the Mystery Bird Challenge… The answer was a …
With a keen eye, intuition and experience, trackers really are like detectives when they attempt to decipher the course of events that took place overnight. The major difference is that …
It’s not what you think. The title, thankfully, is literal. The Tsalala lioness was found moving along the southern bank of the Sand River with her three small cubs, but …
The story of the Tsalala lioness is quite remarkable. Having been alone for a year now, it is incredible that she has survived and is thriving. Because of her unique …
We’re going to start posting a few more of these memory lane-style galleries, as for those of you who’ve followed the Londolozi Blog for a while, it’s great to reminisce …
I’m a big fan of memory lane style posts. We have such an archive of photos and stories on our Blog and on the harddrives that are starting to become …