Lions blow it: Video

The Nyari pride aren’t stopping now. They were on the move already in the afternoon and just kept going most of the night.
It seemed they were making sure to get out of the Nduna prides territory in a hurry. Initially they headed west but then took a south.
The pride is lean and keen not having fed in about 5 days. But they just weren’t finding the prey.

I wondered why they didn’t go to areas where prey generally hang out, like hyaenas do, but then lions don’t have the same intelligence even though they’re supposed to be the royalty of the bushveld.
All night they encountered only 2 herds of impala and were unsuccessful on both occasions with the moon now shining bright. They can’t rely on the cover of darkness to hunt now.
Only after sunrise while still on the move south across the Mahande river did they encounter zebra, giraffe and eland. They were all queued in and ready to advance when Sjambok tried to mate with Manyari and so blew their cover. Royally!

The going was tough all night across the dried out clays pitted with elephant tracks. Doesn’t do our backs any good and the vehicles are taking a pounding. (I was just thinking last night why it is I find the 11hour drive to South Africa so easy going. It feels like I’m sitting in an armchair listening to music all the way. No bumps on the tar road and easy going with power steering to help and music blaring away. Now that’s taking a break! compared to what I go through nightly when following after lions.)

Nearly home I saw my friendly Klipspringer’s and saw they had a new baby. Although this little guy must be a couple of months old. They must have had him stashed away somewhere.