2nd May 2000
At the moment Tjololo is just one big killing machine. He definitely isn’t giving up any chances.
He’d moved his adult male impala kill when we got to him after dark, and 2 hyaenas were feeding on scraps, the remainder of the kill in another tree. I think when moving the kill the hyaenas may have stolen it from him and he stole it back??
Leaving him suitably stuffed again, we went to look for other activity. But no joy, and we returned to find Tjololo heading off northeast on patrol. (We should’ve actually stayed with him all the time and would then at least have got some sleep. RULE NO. 1 Sleep when Tjololo sleeps!)
Just the slightest thought of impala in the area and he was hunting. The bush was fairly thick and the grass very long and our chances of keeping up with him, let alone seeing him kill, weren’t good. So it wasn’t surprising that when we did find him he was strangling a young female impala. Happy nobody was on their way, he moved the carcass into a thicket and rested without feeding. He actually didn’t have reason to feed for days, but just before daybreak he was already tucking into the carcass.
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