21st August 2000
After all the pressures last night it seemed Tjololo had got lucky and found himself a new girlfriend. But it seemed the pressure had only just started. This female threw herself relentlessly at him all night and he would have none of it retaliating with aggression. Whenever he tried to rest she would be there. There was no time for rest and he kept moving most of the night with her pestering him. For some reason he wasn’t going to give in to her desires even though they were laid out on a plate for him.
Earlier in the evening with her moving round to the front of him to intercept him, she flushed a steenbok straight into him. As he caught it she was there and they had a brief tug of war. Tjololo won. He took the carcass up a tree and had no mind of sharing it. Within a couple of hours he’d finished off the whole carcass while his girlfriend could only lie at the base and pick up scraps like a hyaena.
When we left them after sunrise the stalemate continued. She was keen and he was having nothing of it.
We don’t know this female. She is young and may as yet not have established a territory.
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