Another night of much the same thing. Sleep, Roar, Mate, Sleep, Roar, Mate.
But then around midnight Sjambok walked away from Magwaza. Well he tried to. But seeing she wasn’t following he would go back to her and they would mate. This went on several times. He just couldn’t pull himself away from her.
Then he moved off about 500m and seeing she wasn’t following he lay down. He didn’t wait long and suddenly took off on his own mission not giving her a second thought.
He headed southwest at brisk pace walking for over an hour until he got to the Chiredzi River. Having reached the river he roared. His calls were returned by other lions west of the river.
We couldn’t follow any further as Sjambok moved into the river and then headed north. We could only follow his progress by listening to his roars, which were repeatedly answered by lions to the west.
Sjambok then seemed to move out the river back east and we heard him roaring with another lion. Had Magwaza come back and joined him?
We left the river at dawn, as I wanted to get flying early looking for wild dogs. 2 dogs were seen yesterday and tracks of 2 were seen a few days ago in the same area in the north. I didn’t have any joy.
I had also flown yesterday evening to look for Manyari but had no joy finding her. So having finished looking for wild dogs I made a more concerted effort to look for Manyari. I did eventually find her quite some distance to the southeast of Banyini. I didn’t actually see her and think she much be tucked away in a bush with a carcass.
So that’s my mission tonight: Find Manyari!
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