15th November 2000
We were on the look out for Tjololo but were distracted by a seriously pungent smell. Judging by the intensity of it we were convinced it was some huge beast that had died. It didn’t take long to find it. But it only turned out to be a dead female impala that must have been dead a while looking at the rotten state of it. Even worse than all of that, Tjololo was actually feeding on the carcass and had made a complete glut of himself, while his female watched us nervously from a distance. There was little reason for us to hang around with them.
We picked up on an elephant in musth. He was busy destroying trees and I filmed him push over a huge Marula tree, nibble on a few branches before moving on. What a waste. He even pushed over several Acacia gerradii’s not feeding on them at all.
He moved on and joined up with a breeding herd of elephants who didn’t take kindly to our presence as we hastily got the hell out of there.
In the afternoon Tjololo and his girl were still lurking in the area of their now extremely tenderized meal. We ducked.
Dale was with a female impala with a broken back leg when a hyaena came charging in, but went after the youngster, which it didn’t catch. The mother got away without being noticed. If it had seen her condition the hyaena would most surely have set on her.
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