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 For the last two months the male lions on Phinda have been fighting for territory. The dominant male in the north has been challenged by the three young brothers from the south. One of the South brothers has even been mating with some of the North pride lionesses. But tension has also been building between the South males themselves. This came to a head...
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 6 October 2008
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 Currently on Phinda it is quite dry and the lionesses in the nothern sections of the reserve spend a lot of time around one of the few watering holes. It was morning drive and while busy vieing three lonesses a very young nyala calf was approaching the water behind us. The young nyala was spotted by one of the lionesses. To the clean water section the...
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 11 September 2008
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 In a sighting of 3 sub adult cheetahs the rest of the coalition with mother and the other two sub adults we stalking nyalas. At this stage we only had visual of these three and suddenly heard nyalas alarm calling close by. We then drove out to see what the alarm call was for. This is when we stumbled across a lioness making her way to the watering hole....
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 4 September 2008
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 The neighbouring Mkuze National park had recently reportes of two wild dogs possibly running around Phinda. On Phinda we dont have wild dogs so to see two wild dogs that afternoon was pretty special due to the fact that this was possibly one of the first wild dog sightings on the reserve.
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 30 July 2008
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My guest informed me that they only want to leave an hour later for game drive. Leaving the car park and only being out on drive for 5 min in the Sand forest, suddenly a female leopard crossed the road right in front of us. We tried to get a view but this nervous female was hiding with only a few rosettes to see through the binoculars. After a few minutes...
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 2 May 2008
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 Driving on the marsh, Thulani one of the other forest rangers called in a cheetah with five cubs. Arriving at the sighting, there it was, a cheetah and her five cubs feeding of a fully grown kudu cow. The carcass looked to be killed the previous day and what we know about cheetahs, they dont scavange. This single mother killed this kudu all on her own....
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 18 April 2008
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 We stumbled upon a female Cheetah with four cubs. Close in the same vicinity also a female White Rhino with a calf. The female Cheetah with her six month old cubs was then moving in the direction of the Rhinos. The cubs being very inquisitive started approaching the White Rhino calf. It almost seems that they were trying to stalk it, as if that is...
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 19 March 2008
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 This was the morning walk from the camp. The first two hours it was fairly quiet with not much animal activity around us in the vegetation type broad leafed woodland. Our tracker, Zakele suddenly stopped and freezed. Just in front of it we saw this shiny black tail and realized maybe a Forest Cobra, and a very big one as well. We stood there for...
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 9 March 2008
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We were following fresh elephant bull tracks in the northern area of the reserve. We started getting audio of this animal. We then turned around to go and see if we can get a visual of the elephant on the western side of the block where we had the audio. As we came around the corner Zakele our tracker said stop. I asked him what have you seen. He then...
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 18 February 2008
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There were reports of a young female leopard seen during the morning. The afternoon we went to see if we might find her. We drove around the area and suddenly my guest Arto said: “Stop there she is”. This was great as he spotted her first sitting down in a patch of open grass. We viewed her for a long time and also saw her almost killing a nyala. This was...
Posted: &BEYOND Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 27 January 2008
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