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wild dogs on the up

Madikwe has always been known for our good wild dog viewing over the past number of years. Towards the beginning of the year things took a little turn for the worse when the two packs bumped into each other and 3 out of the pack of 4 were killed. During this time the wild dog situation wasn’t looking to good for South Africa and there were no more dogs...

Posted: Madikwe Safari Lodge by Marc Lindsay-Rea, Date: 3 July 2009

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Giraffe kill ripple effect

One of the resident prides of lions, the Ottawa Pride, amazed us all on the 17th June when they managed to kill a full grown adult male Giraffe. Looking at the tracks and the way that the Giraffe was positioned we could see that he had been chased and possibly lost his footing and fell. It was not just the kill and the fact that it was a Giraffe that was...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Paulsen, Date: 2 July 2009

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Cubs Update

Just a quick update for anyone that might be interested. I will warn you that the news is not great. The young little lion cub that was with the Ximungwe pride went missing a few weeks ago and has not been seen again. We are very sure that it has died. We are not sure wat happened but assume that Hyena's could have got hold if it. The leopardess in...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Paulsen, Date: 2 July 2009

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Who's that reflection

Of late we have had a young unidentified male leopard moving around the areas of Exeter River Lodge and Exeter Leadwood Lodge. All we know about him is that he seems to be around the 5 year old mark and is very bold and relaxed. I recently had an amazing sighting of the young male leopard walking through Leadwood camp on an afternoon game drive. We...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Paulsen, Date: 2 July 2009

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Thekwane Male stikes again

I could not beleive my eyes when I was called to a sighting of a Male leopard with a kudu kill. The amazing part about this sighting was that the kudu was a full grown adult female. The male leopard that killed her was not even as big as he could be, he is only around 6 years old and still has some bulking out to do. We knew when we saw the kill that...

Posted: Exeter Lodges by Craig Paulsen, Date: 2 July 2009

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What a mouthfull

We were lucky to come across three sub-adult lions on the move this morning. There was one young male, just starting to develop his mane, and his two sisters. It was the first time I had seen these three without their mother. They seemed to be walking looking for her and softly calling, probably trying to find out where she had gone to. As they were...

Posted: Phinda by Felicity Swanepoel, Date: 30 June 2009

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Blach Rhino @ Kirkman's Kamp

For a very long time our ranging team was patrolling the southern boundary of Kirkman’s Kamp for Black Rhino activity. Until Markus found a fresh Black Rhino midden and tracks coming in from the Kruger National Park Easily he identified the exactly 45 degrees cut branches of the midden as a proof of Black Rhino coming into the area. This morning the...

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Stephanie Mast, Date: 27 June 2009

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yellow billed oxpeckers at KK

For Markus- Yellow billed oxpeckers. There were 3 of them amoungst the red billed who were travelling on this nice herd as they crossed the river.

Posted: Kirkman's Kamp by Laura Dyer, Date: 26 June 2009

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Feeding on the move

Yesterday afternoon was a real good day on Ngala with sightings of a leopard with her two sub-adult males on an impala kill in the Timbavati river bed, two different cheetahs sightings and then top it all up one of the drives found the pack of African hunting dogs on the run with in minutes the pack had spotted a heard of impala but the prey was just to...

Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 26 June 2009

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Feeding Time

The wild dogs have denned on Ngala this year for the first time in about 8 years. The pups are kept in the den and only feed by the Alfa female for the first few weeks they also do not come out of the den till they are about three weeks old round about the same time they start getting weaned. Today we decided was about five weeks and that it would be...

Posted: Ngala by Mark Shaw, Date: 26 June 2009

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