African wildlife adventures live from the bush
Just below our very first scene with the the human figure running away from the Rhino, there is this single figure kneeling by itself.
There is a slight degree of weathering on this painting, but it is the most unusual posture of this male that makes it interesting. What could he possibly be doing?
Is Tjololo still around? Well things sounded a lot more promising last night when we heard a male leopard calling in Tjololo’s territory. We were unable to follow up on the calls to the south of the Kapen river, but just hope it’s him.
In our efforts to get around to where the leopard was calling we drove on roads not covered since the floods and soon found ourselves at a point of no return, having only just made it through areas of deep mud. There was no ways we would have got back through those patches and only hoped the road ahead was passable back to firmer ground. We barged through several more such patches as they sucked hard on the Toyota trying to swallow us. But Japanese engineering won the day (or night) and we happily made it back to the more user friendly roads.
Our frustration continues as the road condition hardly improves and we aren’t able to traverse Tjololo and Tjellers’ territories extensively in search of them.
Normally only Elephant bulls will spar to measure their opponents’ strength. But in this case, a cow actually felt like a little wrestling would be in order. This is mere a display of play than anything else. Young animals usually use this sort of play to get to know their boundaries in life.
To boost his confidence this bull tried to mount one of the younger cows in the herd but even that ended in a failed attempt.
As the last light faded, the herd headed off into the bush.
Just below the hunter scene we had two days ago, we find this human figure armed with a bow and arrow which seems to be super imposed on top of the other hunters.
What could this mean? Was this from a dream? The spike like protrusions on the hunters head is a bit confusing.
Late afternoon we had a leopard for a short period. Think she was the Selati female. We soon had to give up on her as she headed across a boggy area. The conditions sure are playing havoc with us and are partly the reason for not being able to find Tjololo or Tjellers. Hopefully this is the case, because we aren’t able to traverse the whole of their territories with many roads still being impassable. With this in mind I trust Tjololo is still at large. If the rains hold off, time will tell and we will keep up the search.
The lions on the zebra carcass weren’t going to show their faces. But we picked up the Eyrefield lion pride near the Mala Mala airstrip. They weren’t up to much and soon took to the wetlands.
Our search for the leopards continued without success
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