Wildcast

23rd November 2000
Unbelievable!!! Must be a record?! He sure stands alone!!!
He was lying on an anthill when we found him. As he got up to move on we thought he was behaving strangely and then we saw her thrashing around in front of him on the other side of the anthill. The Newington female was offering herself again and he didn’t hesitate to take her on.

Tjololo is now mating for the 4th time in 5 weeks. Incredible!
Still a little lean Tjololo was soon onto the trail of Impala as his mistress followed after him. Spotting a herd of impala ahead, Tjololo watched them for a while. But he had been spotted and the impala snorted at him. Next he was charging down on them from about a hundred meters. He ran straight past the main herd and then we lost him. Probably about 400m further on we eventually found him with an impala lamb.
His technique was obviously to scatter the herd and in the confusion the youngsters find themselves having to fend for themselves and with little experience soon make a mistake. Just what Tjololo waits for. They have little chance.
While Tjololo fed his lady lay waiting. Suddenly she took off. Tjololo looked around bewildered and then carried on feeding. Then we saw the huge beast. An adult male lion was approaching Tjololo and with him crunching bones Tjololo hadn’t heard it approaching. Eventually when it was only some 20m away he heard and saw it. Without hesitation he took off and up a tree abandoning his kill. The lion got lucky and headed off with the morsel.
Tjololo left his tree, picked up the last remaining morsel of the kill and moved off to eat it before getting back to his girl.
In the afternoon the couple were still in the very same spot continuing with the same antics.