12th June 2000
Tjololo’s hunger must have been getting the better of him as even after an exhausting night last night he was on the move early when we found him shortly after dark. A young hyaena was trailing him.
Tjololo was all senses out on the prowl. With the moon getting brighter cover was even more necessary but the bush being thick as it was helped him all the way as he dashed in and caught a young female impala. He had hardly grabbed it and was already running for the closest tree knowing the hyaena would be at him in seconds. He made it just in time up a Marula tree.
That was Tjololo well fed and resting for the rest of the night.
A short while later the impala in the area were snorting madly, obviously another predator in the area. Being so close we expected it to come in to Tjololo’s kill, but the rest of the night was quite.
Only at dawn when Tjololo headed north did he bump into 4 lions not even 300m away. The lions seeing him got up but Tjololo didn’t hang around, leaving the lions to lie up in a donga close by.
Tjololo did a wide berth around the lions and back to his kill and fed. Hearing his feeding the lions soon raced in. Again Tjololo retreated baling out the tree and disappeared. One of the lions clumsily scrambled up the tree and fed on the carcass. But being a messy eater and not being a very efficient tree climber she kept dropping pieces of the carcass, which her friends at the base of the tree fought over.
That was the end of Tjololo’s next meal.
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