busy dam

last night we spent 2hours just sitting at tlou dam watching a dead rhino carcass been eaten by all sorts of animals. on arrival there where two subadult lions sleeping next to the carcass. this prevented the 9 spotted hyeanas in total from coming to feed and they where getting very very close, but at the end they cut their losses and left empty stomached. as we sat watching the lions who where at the time now feeding on the carcass, heads deep inside the caverties they escavated, another pair of rhinos aproached from the north and 3more from the west. we sat watching the rhino in the moon lit night until there where a total of 7 LIVE rhino all together watching the lions feeding on there own kind! just before we left we where privileged enough to see a brown hyeana pass just infront of the vehicle and head down to the carcass to watch and paciently wait for the lions to have their fill.

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Mark Lautenbach, Date: 28 June 2008