13th June 2000
Another long night with Tjololo as he patrolled on south with failed hunting attempts on impala, duiker and kudu. Although he was, what we thought, within pouncing range of an adult female kudu he didn’t go in. Was he a little concerned she was a bit big for him? (Only several months ago a female leopard was seen to kill an adult kudu cow).
Right in the south of his territory a lioness surprised him. No problem as he scampered up a tree out of harms way. She was persistent thinking him to have a kill, searching the area. Then to our surprise, and even more to Tjololo’s surprise, she suddenly took to the tree. Tjololo had nowhere to go and ended up baling out from the upper branches disappearing unharmed.
At dawn he was at Rocky crossing continuing west along the Sand river.
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