Wildcast

10th August 2000
It was great to have Tjololo feeling more himself and being a lot more active through the night making hunting attempts on kudu, duiker, steenbok, impala and waterbuck. He managed to tackle an adult kudu cow as they both went crashing to the ground in some bush and were both up and running again. Tjololo gave chase for some 50m and gave up. Later in the evening he made a similar attempt on a kudu.
In the early hours he went in on some impala and we thought he’d missed but eventually found him strangling a male impala. While plucking it on the ground a hyaena surprised him, he dashed for a tree with the carcass but didn’t make it and for a few brief seconds Tjololo, hyaena and impala were in a tangle. The hyaena won the day. It fed but not over anxiously and then dragged the carcass into a thicket. Tjololo tried to pull a pose on the hyaena charging at it standing tall, but the hyaena retaliated and came out excited and giggling. Tjololo backed off. We left them in this stalemate situation with hyaena sleeping on the carcass in the thicket.

Again last night Tjololo continued to move north and further east into his old territory (Masuli’s territory?) and was confident marking all the way. This is very encouraging.
On our way back to camp we had our 4th puncture of the night between us, leaving us stranded a while until Dale was able to return from camp with another spare tyre.
10th August 2007 - Just had a report from Kirkmans Kamp that they followed Tjololo hunting for an hour last night in the southern end of his territory. The dude is apparently very well.

I would so love to see the lad again. He’s getting on now.