Daily Archive for December 20th, 2007

Lion wrestles buffalo: Video

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Another 24 hours of rain and the bush is now totally saturated. Even access on many tracks is not possible and off-road travel is totally out.

Raging torrent
I was able to check out the buffalo, at last it was dead and had been fed on although there was no sign of the lions. They were sure to be lurking in the bushes.

Eventually
A couple of jackal were taking advantage of the feast while the lions were away.

Of course there were no vultures as they definitely weren’t taking to the skies in this weather.

Still struggling
While trying to get around this elephant bull challenged me on the road digging his tusks into the ground in some sort of display before moving on.

Challenger
Later in the day, wanting to be out, I took a paddle on the Malilangwe dam again. The hippo were enjoying the cool weather and playing boisterously in the water. Luckily leaving me out of their games.

Tall
But yet again it was a day being mainly camp bound.

In the rain

Technical problems with all the rain put a dampener on me getting wildcast up in time.

Tjololo 19th December 2000

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The Tjololo Diaries

19th December 2000
The hyaena cubs were out milling around soon after sunset. We’re still a little battled as to what happened to the other 2 cubs. Been no sign of them for some time now. It’s possible they’ve been moved to another den, but this is unlikely as hyaenas tend to use the same den. It’s also odd that no other hyaenas are coming to the den except the mother of the 2 cubs. We probably need to spend more time there to see what it’s all about.


Once the cubs had suckled we left and found Tjololo near his kill panting away and hugely well fed. That was him out for the rest of the night and at dawn after finishing the carcass he headed east into Kruger.