16th May 2000
Not a good day for giraffe. In the south 7 lions were feeding on a freshly killed giraffe and in the north another 4 lions had killed a giraffe.
After visiting both carcasses we searched for ages for Tjololo with no sign of him or his kill from yesterday.
We eventually found him in the very north of his territory resting. In the early hours he headed south and back to where his kill was and seemed as surprised as we were finding nothing there. Not sure what happened to it.
Tjololo continued on west hunting. Following some 5m behind a couple of waterbuck cows for nearly a hundred meters he eventually decided they were too much for him, and continued pursuing some impala. The bush was thick, almost a solid wall, and I was surprised how long we were able to keep up with him before losing him around dawn.
So we said goodbye to Tjololo for a couple of weeks. Hope he doesn’t miss us as we will him.
(We took a break from 17th till 31st May. So no diary again till 1st June.)
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