The Big 5 Archives – Page 3 of 11 – Kwambili Safari Lodge

KwaMbili Game Lodge - Thornybush Nature Reserve - Greater Kruger Park - Big 5 Reserve - South Africa

Mating lions

Posted on 17th February 2020 by liek@outinafrica.com

This male and female lion were spotted resting around the dam the morning after Valentine’s Day. Both had left their respective prides for a few days of mating – Cupid definitely struck here! This lioness couldn’t resist the dark and…
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An elephants built-in water…

Posted on 12th February 2020 by liek@outinafrica.com

You may have noticed elephants with a leakage from their temporal glands. This means that they are experiencing some kind of stress. It could be a female worried about protecting her calf or simply heat stress. Interestingly, there have been…
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Lions and leopards

Posted on 15th November 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

It all started one afternoon with a family just arrived all the way from Holland. We were told that this trip had been a dream of theirs for many years. After watching African animals on TV and wanting to experience…
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Makeppies female

Posted on 11th November 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

Since the loss of our dominant female leopard, Twinspots, it has been interesting to follow the movements of the Makeppies female from the north of Thornybush. We have lately been finding more and more evidence of her around the lodge,…
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Mighty lion

Posted on 23rd September 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

Having a lion next to the vehicle is quite something but when he is above you looking down on you, it really makes him live up to his name of “King of the Jungle”. We were extremely lucky to have…
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Season’s changing

Posted on 10th September 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

The past few days have been windy and cold with the first rains of the season falling, only 6mm but enough for the plants to start producing flowers and bring on the whole pollination process. Soon we will witness the…
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Elephants in the water

Posted on 3rd July 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

While out on game drive one afternoon we stopped at a herd of elephants. The young bulls were playing and the rest of the herd were grazing and breaking branches or swimming in a dam. Suddenly one young elephant calf…
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Dagga Boys

Posted on 11th June 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

We refer to solitary old buffalo bulls as Dagga Boys (dagga meaning mud) because the majority of the time that one sees them they are not far from water or even in the water! And this is not only for…
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The life of sub-adult…

Posted on 4th June 20194th June 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

It’s been great to watch these two young lions growing up over the past two years, especially their early interaction with their mother and her sisters, acting like big kittens, showing such love and so carefree. That is until the…
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Deformed tusks

Posted on 15th April 2019 by liek@outinafrica.com

Consider how important an elephants’ tusks are to them. They allow them to tear bark off trees to eat, reach down and dig up small bulbs that may be just under the ground and break big branches off to get…
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