Monthly Archive for September, 2006

The dogs had major success this morning but it was not without their old adversaries making a guest appearance.

On the move early with all the pups the adults suddenly bomb-shelled into the bush leaving the pups perplexed not knowing who to follow and subsequently, as they instinctively know, they all waited together.

And adult came back covered in blood well fed. I later found a couple of dogs on the remains of a female impala carcass. Then I heard hyaenas yeowling and found the dogs on an adult male impala kill where they were keeping a hyaena at bay. But that only lasted until hyaena reinforcements arrived and they stole the carcass.

Then the dogs all seemed lost and there were dogs calling in all directions. Eventually they regrouped and I found them on another adult male impala carcass. By this stage all were really well fed and although the pups had taken over the carcass they were really just lying on it rather than feeding.

Eventually they moved off and the adults filled themselves beyond any sort of comfort level before leaving the carcass to about 50 vultures and a Marabou Stork.

These too provided some dogs with entertainment never letting the vultures drop their guard as the dogs were onto them in a hurry. But if a vulture hesitated slightly in taking off the dog was caught off guard and almost took fright.

In the end the vultures cleaned up as usual.