23rd August 2000
Shololwane has started his days of wandering as we found him a long way west of his mothers’ territory on his own. As a young male he’ll keep moving out of his mothers’ territory as he explores and slowly becomes independent. As he gets older he’ll have to stake out a territory and possibly fight for the rights to it. But that’s only in a few years and for now he’ll live a free life still returning home on occasion, especially if there’s food around.
Tjololo moved on north in the Sand river and then headed east. He was interrupted by a couple of lionesses and made a hasty get away. But it didn’t last. He killed an adult male impala and before he could feed the lions were back and he had to abandon it.
Carrying on east he was successful again where we eventually found him having killed a subadult female kudu, which he proceeded to drag into a thicket not allowing us any visibility. The carcass was too large to tree and leaving him in the morning he was still lucky to have the kill to himself on the ground.
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