Lions of Timbavati

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Tanda Tula update

The lions enjoyed a good week of life at the top of the food chain, and we saw them with a few kills this week.  The River Pride made a reappearance, but it was not a long-lived one.  The pride were found feeding on an impala towards the end of the week, at the same time that one of the Vuyela males spent two days feeding on a large zebra carcass.  Fourteen members of the Sark Breakaway Pride (including two cubs) were found feasting on a zebra in the eastern part of their territory (and the central part of our concession) which left the pride pleasingly accessible to us for most of the week.  The pride then spenta  couple of days trying their luck with a large herd of buffalo around the two most central waterholes, but they didn’t even seem to get close to coming right.  Later in the week the cubs were found on Nkhari, and we enjoyed a couple of magical drives of not just the three cubs we showed off last month, but also their three newest members!  With these additional cubs, the pride now sits at 18 members strong, plus the five pride males – the real makings of another super pride.  The Mayambula pride were not present this week, although we did find a single young male walking around close to the buffalo herd one morning – I suspect he was more concerned about getting away from the Vuyela males than he was about hunting buffalo.  The Vuyela males showed themselves a few more times, and we even got to hear the odd, distant roar coming from these impressive boys, but with their interests drawn to the Mayambula Pride once again this week, we sadly didn’t spend as much time in their company as we would have liked.  A small portion of the Giraffe Pride were seen once during the week, otherwise their presence continued to be erratic, to say the least. 

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