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Been a tough day for Puzzles. No food today. The pack were out hunting at dawn and only returned much later empty handed.
I spent the night at the den with little activity and the pack not having hunted successfully.
It was all pretty quiet at the den, except the pups did come out their little hole to suckle from mom. She was soon disturbed and dragged her little ones, all now hanging onto a teat, back into their little hole. So far it looks like she’s got 6 pups. (Lindy’s picture)
Hopefully for her tonight the pack will come back successful. Anyway the hungrier they get the more determined they become on the hunt. Success can’t be far away.
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The wild dogs haven’t had a good run of meals lately and the little guys are all looking rather lean.
Hunting at dawn and again in the evening, although they were successful, only a few adults got to feed each time. Both kills must have been small as the adults returning from them didn’t take the others back to the kill and neither did the others follow up.
And so their lean times continue, each only getting a snack a day.
The adult with the injury to her front right foot, still manages to stay with the pack and is feeding but she is looking really lean and unfortunately looking like she might go the same way as 2 other adults we have already lost in the pack in the last 4 months. Her injury, whatever it is, doesn’t look severe except she just isn’t using that leg at all. I sure hope it heels soon, although in the last 5 days it hasn’t shown any signs of getting better.
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It was an early morning hunt again for the dogs, heading out before dawn. But only around sunrise did the Alpha male and female kill an impala which was almost immediately taken from them by one hyaena. Even when reinforcements arrived the dogs couldn’t get their kill back. This wise hyaena backed into a bush and was then totally in control of the situation. (Some of the other pack members must have killed elsewhere as they arrived at the den covered in blood)
I came around the corner, well after sunrise, and this bushpig was standing in the road almost wanting to take me on. He stood there a while and then sauntered off. Very strange for one of these beasts as they’re nocturnal and usually very skittish.
I saw rhinos today! Yes black AND white. The black dude didn’t hang around long enough for his photo session but did initially stare me down before taking off.
There were 4 white rhino resting up in the shade and I unfortunately disturbed their peace. When I switched the car off they seemed to have lost contact with where or what I actually was. So I thought I could sneak closer on foot for a few pics. But I hadn’t even both feet on the ground when the oxpeckers alarm called sending all that tonnage disappearing into the mopanie.
The dogs have got into a routine now of hunting in the early morning and spending the rest of the day lying around. Well not for the pups. They can’t leave each other alone and especially the alpha pups just have to continously torment BB’s pups, as they have done since they were 2 days old.
I’m sure this routine will be broken soon as the moon is waxing and they’ll go hunting in the middle of the night when its cooler too.
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