After finishing my work in the office last night, we headed out to look for Manyari. She had joined up with the rest of the Nyari pride and were headed north from Banyini. On arriving at Sosigi dam they milled around, suddenly turned and headed east and were rummaging around in the hills. I was sure they were after a leopard and searched the trees.
Magwaza came out a rock crevice carrying the dried out bony remains of a young nyala carcass. She and the other male fought over it, the others not getting a slice of the pie.
High up in the rocks surveying his domain was a male leopard totally unconcerned by the lions and just watching the goings on. He stayed there the whole time.
Manyari definitely looks like she’s being suckled on 2 teats. But the whole night she stayed with the rest of the pride hanging around Simbiri dam after having finished off their hard scavenged carcass.
It was dawn patrol with the dogs again. They were already on the move before sunrise, just north of Manyuchi pan, and looked hungry.
It was cross-country from there and they weren’t hanging around as we crashed after them in the mopanie woodland and sometimes thickets of Raisin bush.
But it wasn’t long and the hot temperatures got to them. We left them resting in the shade of a dense thicket right up in the north in the early morning.
I was sure with temperatures again going over a hundred degrees, the elephants must be swimming somewhere.
We picked up a herd near Chikewlane and they soon moved north into the hills to drink at the Chikwelane spring. From there they continued on north. I was sure they would eventually find their way to the main dam for a swim. No such luck and we didn’t see them again.
With the day being so hot I presumed the wild dogs wouldn’t get active until after sunset and would very likely hunt with the moon as it sits at half. So I didn’t follow up on them in the afternoon and carried on looking for elephants at all the pans.
That proved a completely unsuccessful exercise.
It was only after sunset that this white rhino bull came in to drink and wallow after dark.
Kim, how can you tell what kind of animal those remains (Magwaza was chomping on) were from? What gave it away as being from a nyala?
It was the colour of the meat and bones
:) 
it still had the horns attached.