17th September 2000
It would appear that my assumptions yesterday were wrong. The female that Tjololo met to the east in Kruger was not the same female that met up with him in the west on the Sand river, although they were both after the same cause.
After closer examination we identified the female on the river as the Newington female. She is very relaxed and so all behaviour we witnessed was natural.
Tjololo did it again. Any time that she got close to him and he realized she wasn’t too sure of his position, he would stalk and then charge, sending her scattering for the nearest tree yeowling and urinating as she went. But she wanted him and continued to follow and propose to him all night only to receive the same treatment. Even at dawn, now 24 hours later, she was still hankering after him.
Tjololo tried to ignore her constantly shadowing him and continued to mark his northern boundary. Then headed west in the Kapen river and almost back to where he’d started out in the evening before heading south in the river. Although he made several unsuccessful hunting attempts on impala, he seemed to again be concentrating his efforts on maintaining his boundaries.
The only common denominator in both these females that he isn’t interested in is they both reside predominantly on the western side of the river, which is outside his territory. These girls should be seeking the services of their own resident male. But then maybe Tjololo is such a dude they all want him.
Whether this fact that these girls are from a neighbouring territory has anything to do with it is hard to say.
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