Wildcast

The elephants are back in the Albizia woodlands near Chimbiya and Chinzwini.

Chipfongwe has now almost mastered the use of his trunk. Well he has to some degree and just in time for his first teeth erupting. So his trunk can now be used for real to feed. No more play play stuff. The real world. And he’s taking to the challenge walking up front with the herd. Quite the little dude.
At one stage today he got a little left behind and seeing me slowly approaching decided to challenge me. Ears wide-spread and head held high he stood his ground briefly before running after mom.

And what these youngsters often do in a situation like that is they turn to run and at the same time let out one almighty trumpet. This brings mom running to the rescue, and having been sitting there all innocently I now have to contend with an unhappy mom.
At least no such tactics yet with Chipfongwe.
The elephants moved into the hills and I picked up on the Nduna pride right down south near Chimize. There were 8 lions here.

But on the way to finding them I found the 3 year-old male and the 3 smaller cubs all on their own near Banyini. Somehow they’d got separated and mom was now a couple of kilometres away.

So in the night mom and the other female had joined up with the rest of the pride. But the adult male was not present. He might have been hiding in the bushes with the youngsters.
When the 8 went hunting at dusk they headed even further south and mom showed no sign of missing her cubs.

I wonder when she plans to go and look for them?