5th November 2000
We were lucky to get a very brief glimpse of the White Cloth females cubs in a crack in the rocks. We spent several hours waiting, hoping she’d bring them out into view, but no joy.
Tjololo’s passionate days are over for now. Looking rather lean after many days of ‘hard work’ he was obviously keen to hunt. Moving into thicket country, Tjololo didn’t appreciate how he was hampering us following him as we forced our way through narrow gaps with their army of threatening hooked thorns, which don’t need very much encouragement to rip our clothes and any soft human flesh that gets in the way. While negotiating a thorn barricade were heard the death cries and found Tjololo strangling an adult female nyala. He was very quick to feed realizing the carcass was too big for him to tree and hyaenas would soon be there following up on the death cries. But he was lucky and managed to keep the carcass to himself all night with it tucked away in a thicket. He was still the happy owner at dawn.
With him suitably bloated we found the White Cloth female with a Steenbok kill. Having already fed she rested up a ways off before heading to Kapen Rocks to spend the rest of the night with her cubs.
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