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Mapogo Male and Hlangisa Female Leopard
Posted by Greg Coates
Hlangisa has been extremely adventurous this week. She was found far north of her territory and spent the most part of the week tentatively moving through the territories of other females. Perhaps she really is just exploring or perhaps it is due to the intensive activity of the wild dogs denning in her territory, or even the arrival of the Bushlodge Male. One evening she came across an old impala ram kill which seems to have been killed by another leopard. She fed on it during the night but the Mapogo sniffed out the carcass and stole it from her the next morning. Hlangisa moved off and climbed a nearby tree, watching the lions devour her meal and perhaps hoping there might be some scraps once they moved off. It was not to be though as the lions finished every morsel and she moved even further north and west towards the Ulusaba airstrip.