31st October 2000
The bitterly cold weather persisted all day, which is no wonder why Tjololo was on the move for a lot of the morning, besides looking rather lean and obviously hungry.
At dawn we found him frantically following a trail until he came up against his neighbour to the southeast. Showdown time. Presumably they had been at it all night as Tjololo had hardly moved from where we had his tracks going into Kruger.
But the showdown was over now and the 2 males headed into their respective territories, Tjololo heading west along the Sand river. He followed the river almost to his western boundary before cutting across the corner and heading into the river to rest.
We tried our luck again in the afternoon hoping to see the White Cloth female cubs, but no joy.
Heading back south we bumped into Shololwane. He’s looking well and was hunting. Resting for a short while, he was suddenly roused by movement in the grass next to him. Next he was standing over a puffadder, a very poisonous African snake. The snake lunged at him when he got too close, but he was quick to jump out the way and left the snake to go its own way. We stayed with him as he went off in search of prey, but had to leave him when it got too dark to film.
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