Wild Dog pups are…
After a difficult three months, the wild dogs pups are finally old enough to keep up with the adults on the hunt. For the first three months the pups were confined to the den area and needed to be brought…
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Category: Rare Sightings
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Elephant Mud Bath
There are always surprises that await you in the bush. One such instance happened when we were watching two male elephants walking alongside a dam and stopping to drink, as one would expect them to do. We were in a…Read More »
Large Spotted Genet
The large-spotted Genet is a nocturnal species sometimes seen on game drive or at the KwaMbili hide. They are usually shy animals but in some cases where there is ongoing contact with humans they do become comfortable with our presence.…Read More »
Lions – passing on…
With the fences between Thornybush and Timbavati down, lions are crossing the old fence-line and we are getting questions about the phenomenon of infanticide i.e. when a male lion comes in and takes over a pride he will kill the…Read More »
Civet fights lions
One often hears of the reputation of a honey badger being able to fight off lions and leopards and not taking it from any animal. This week we saw something very interesting from the KwaMbili hide - two honey badgers…Read More »
An accomplished mother
We were lucky to have our old friend, the resident female leopard we call Twin Spots, come by the other evening and stop for a drink at the waterhole in front of the hide while the guests were enjoying dinner…Read More »
Leopard cubs and Wild…
This week we had a very lucky sighting of the elusive female leopard called Nightjar and her 7 month-old male cub drinking from a small water pan after eating from an impala kill they had made.Read More »
When a girl says…
We found our dominant male lion (named Black Dam after the place where he came from) limping on his right hind leg after spending some time with the lionesses from the Northern pride.Read More »
Christmas in the bush
Hope you all had as good a Christmas as we did! On Christmas Eve we found (or rather first smelt and then, after investigating, found!) a male leopard feeding on a young wildebeest (gnu) carcass.Read More »
Raising young in the…
Despite the drought, a number of mammals are successfully raising their young and in these past days we have been privileged to see several examples.Read More »
