Elephant bull confronts: Video

Day work is so cool but the hours are still just as long.

We were out sunrise to sunset in search of Chipfongwe. It was only when we got to the east that we picked up signs of elephants, plenty of them, all around Nduna dam. But by midday still no further sign of the elephant. Just this lone Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest that thought it was a zebra.

We spent some time at Lojaan dam waiting, hoping in today’s heat they would surely be down for a drink and swim. But it was only my friendly hippo that provided us with the usual entertainment.

Eventually after climbing many hills we picked up Mandlovu and her herd in the north east. And there were many more elephant all feeding in the mopanie.
Brutus was there too and made sure we knew about it giving us several of his close up stares peering down his nose at us.

And of course the herds were giving the grumpy dude a wide berth. He never really hassled us though and slowly the herds were moving south towards Nduna where they probably arrived after dark to drink and swim.
Mandlovu and her herd are all well with little Chipfongwe still doing great. Good to see the little lad again. Of course Mandlovu and Chip’s aunt came to the car as one and had to test us with heads held high they greeted us only feet away before moving on.

Early in the morning after seeing lion tracks near Hwata pan and hearing impala alarm calling in the area we found 6 members of the Nduna pride. They were already chilling out for the day. Manyari was there with her 3 cubs and 2 young males.