Wildcast

24th November 2000
This sure has been a 24 hours with a punch.
Tjololo was still courting the Newington female in the morning. We left them to it. And as usual they were still at it in the afternoon.

At dusk, Tjololo, now really lean, was hunting. He saw an adult female impala, but the impala had seen […]

Despite all the moisture that Lions get from their kills, it is very likely that they will go and find water after a kill. Because Lions are basically at the bottom of the energy ladder, they need to conserve as much of it as possible. This is the reason why they sleep during the […]

To witness lions doing anything other than sleeping, is just pure luck. Lions will sleep for up to 20 hours everyday and only become active in the late afternoon as the heat from the day disappear. This is a time for grooming and bonding with each other and like all children, the cubs will take […]

I worked in the Tuli area of Botswana for close on 3 years in the early 1980’s, managing the game farm Santhata. (This was where I had the lion encounter I wrote about yesterday)
Apart from managing Santhata I was also in charge of overseeing the only 3 properties that run along the Shashe River, this […]