26th June 2000
We at last found the wild dog den but definitely not a place we’ll be doing any filming. There is just no visibility into the den, which is in a termite mound surrounded by very dense vegetation. We don’t yet know how many pups there are, but there are 5 adults.
Tjololo left his kill for a gentle walkabout towards midnight only returning in the early hours to finish off the carcass and headed back northwest into the Sand river. He was constantly being hassled by a couple of hyaena, something he didn’t take kindly to as he had to scale a tree each time with his inflated gut.
At dawn we followed another hyaena heading north hoping to be led to a den. No such luck but it did meet up with another two as they greeted with the normal ritualised tentative greeting ceremony each sniffing at the others genitals as they stood poised on 3 legs, the other lifted, a very vulnerable position.
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