The wild dogs had another run in with the hyaenas.
The whole pack were out hunting early this morning even though they looked like they might have hunted successfully last night with the moon. But there wasn’t much spring in their step and after a half-hearted impala chase they were resting in the shade of a Baobab tree.
With temperatures already spiralling out of control by about 8am, the dogs headed to Nhoro pan to cool off and drink. But they weren’t the only ones with that idea and were confronted by 4 hyaenas. Again the dogs took the fight to the hyaenas, but this time they won. Well only just.
The hyaenas disappeared over the dam wall but were soon back resting in the mud pools with the wild dogs lying in the shade watching them. But there was no sign of BB’s pups.
With the initial charge and commotion they had taken off in the opposite direction. The adults and alpha pups called from Nhoro pan for about 15minutes but the little guys weren’t about to poke their noses into that conflict zone.
The search party headed out following the pups trail which took them north. And amazingly they found them at the old den site near Chimbira, about 2kms away. The amazing part being that these little pups knew their way there even though they had only lived there a few days.
Big points for BB’s pups keeping ahead of the survival game. Except they don’t get points, they just stay alive.
The rest of the day pushed temperatures well over 100F in the shade, which was no wonder that the elephants had taken to their big pool party at Lojaan dam.
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