Wildcast

After the Mala Mala rangers left Tjololo he carried on hunting heading north of the Kapen river, but then suddenly headed south with purpose, still hunting if he found opportunity but without success.
His move south again, after only having left there last night, was possibly his hormones working overtime. As the eastern horizon started to glow Tjololo found himself in luck. Licking on some buffalo dung a leopard called to his west. Hardly spending a moment to listen Tjololo was up and running in that direction. When we located him after riding many rough dongas, we found him with Tjellers. He was apprehensive at her approaches and moved away each time. This went on for about an hour until he’d built up his confidence and they mated. Our thoughts of him having found a female in oestrus last night were confirmed. (They will mate now for anything up to 6 days).

It was another hard night as we battled with the eyelids. Tjololo rested only a couple of times and only for about half an hour. Two nights in a row like this is testing our systems, but hopefully tonight will be a little easier with them mating. Some extra sleep would be hugely appreciated.