Daily Archive for January 23rd, 2009

I really wasn’t surprised to find Manyari and Sjambok still on Banyini and still at it.
Chahwihwi wasn’t anywhere around.

I soon lost interest in their inactivity and was in the sky again looking for the dogs. I found them way down in the south again. Just to the west of Chiloveka dam.

Back on the land we travelled all the way to the southern part of the reserve, over 20kms and were soon with the dogs resting up in one of those bare sodic areas that still had pools of water in them. The dogs were resting but did occasionally drop into the muddy pools to cool off.

We spent the day sleeping with them, and as was to be expected, they did nothing. But almost as regular as clockwork they were up just before 5pm to run around frantically greeting mom and dad and then each other. It’s a lot of frenzy and squealing and as quickly as it started, it all ended and all were back resting.

Dad got the family on the move just before 6pm. The pups as usual were off to a slow start following up in the wings and were soon playing their games with a herd of zebra. So much so they didn’t see mom and dad rush off after impala. Eventually dad come wandering back and joined up with the pups. But no Puzzles.

But night fall Puzzles still hadn’t joined up with the pack. It was likely she had killed but why was it taking her so long to get back?
When can only hope they’re all back later tonight.