After following a leopard for the last month it’s hard to imagine that it would be difficult to locate, not just one elephant, but a whole herd.
Eventually I did find a small group close to Bandama pan. They were feeding in the mopanie and in the cool weather were in no rush to drink.
But a herd of Sable Antelope slowly ventured in to drink. They seemed nervous and didn’t hang around.
And the only other elephant I saw was this big tusker at Hwata pan. So where is Mandlovu and Chipfongwe and the rest of them? I wasn’t even seeing tracks. Maybe they’ve taken the weekend off.
At dawn there was a bachelor herd of impala on the airstrip and just about all the boys had paired off and were fighting. Well actually just playing. With the rut over some of them still just have it in them to want to fight. But without the high levels of testosterone that they have during the rut, the fighting was just playful stuff.
While filming the impala this massive cloud bank came stooping in and for the rest of the day kept temperatures down.
And as usual in this cool weather the animals just seem to hide. Who knows where!
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