4th December 2000
Today was our first night out on Africam Radio. Will try to make this a daily crossing to keep all updated.
Tjololo was where we’d left him lying up on the Sand river.
Only after dark did he get on the move heading east across the center of his territory with a fair sized gut and not much purpose in his walk. About half way across he headed north, now tracking down baby impala. He was homing in on 2 unsuspecting youngsters when a hyaena charged in to botch up the hunt. But Tjololo took advantage of the confusion and caught a youngster. He made a rapid dash for the closest tree, a buffalo thorn, full of thorns in its lower branches. Getting tangled up in the thorns the hyaena was onto him and managed to wrestle the carcass away. It wasn’t long and the hyaena had consumed the whole carcass.
Tjololo had hung around but without success, as there weren’t any scraps. He rested up further north for some time.
By dawn he’d moved east and into Kruger.
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