Kambula/Ntsevu males

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(12-15-2024, 02:09 AM)Rui Ferreira Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 02:02 AM)BA0701 Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 01:15 AM)Rui Ferreira Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 01:07 AM)RookiePundit Wrote:

(12-15-2024, 12:55 AM)Dreadlocks Wrote: Kambula males moved sabi sabi , I think they moved because of food , big buffalo herd travel from north to south and Kambula with them. Not because of pressure from other males ,what we seen 90% of their meal are buffalos. K6 stays north because he was mating.

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Looks like they most likely got themselves a TB source, considering the collar. hopefully nothing comes from that.

Couldn´t it just be a herd tracker?

Not sure I have ever seen a buffalo with a collar like that, certainly not one that was being killed by a lion.

Me neither, I just doubt the buffalo has a collar due to TB , Im sure if it was due to that we would´ve already seen many more with it

But for other reason would they track them? It suggest research bweing done. They are not a painted wold pack which they track each with collars because there is so few of them. It is likely a herd tracker in the sense they are not following (or were following) just this particular individual, the question is the reason. TB or health monitoring in general would one, I guess they could be just studying grazing a movement patterns, but I am not sure if they would need to go through tranquilizing an animal for that, seem more like they for some reason wanted to dart particularly this individual/group. Maybe the cow (seems like a cow to me, but I'm bad at this) is not from around there and could be darted far away from there (the ecosystem spans across the borders after all) where there might different practice or obvious reason which is not obvious to us observing mostly Sabi Sands and nearby areas. Not sure how buffalo herds merge and split and how much they travel but I guess unlikely and far fetched. Perhaps there could be HWC issue, animals escape through broken fence quite often, perhaps they could monitor a group that has a history of being troublemakers in that regard, but I doubt it. I still think some sort of health monitoring is the most likely cause. Reply