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Camp Pan 4:3 Male (Xmobonyane, Princess Alice Pans Male)
2000 - 2015
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Unique Markings: Scar on right cheek.
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Triangle under right eye.
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Slit in Tongue.
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Massive stature.
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One of the true legends of the Leopards of Londolozi, the Camp Pan male was dominant over a significant portion of the property for a good six years, longer than the average tenure expected of a male leopard in a hotly contested environment like the Sabi Sands.
Born in 2000 to the Tavangumi female, he spent a great deal of time around Singita’s Camp Pan during his formative months, which is where he got his name.
In 2007 he began pushing east into Londolozi and established himself almost overnight, pushing out the dominant Sparta 5:5 male in the process. His territory was enormous, stretching from the Manyelethi River in the north to beyond the Maxabene River in the South. With the arrival of the Marthly male in 2010, the Camp Pan male was forced to start ceding territory in the north while consolidating territory in the south, but he was slowly but surely forced further and further south and east, eventually getting ousted altogether by the Piva male pushing in from the opposite direction.
The Camp Pan male had an interesting relationship with one of his sons, the Tu-Tones male, with whom he almost shared territory, tolerating his presence and not forcing him out as most males would their sons. The two males would be seen on the same kills and even mating with the same female at the same time.
During his reign the Camp Pan male fathered a number of eminently viewable leopards, including the Tutlwa and Mashaba females, ensuring that his legacy lives on.
He was last seen in the Spring of 2015.
Territory: The Camp Pan male occupied territory in most of Sparta and Marthly during his initial phase of maturity. As he grew older, his territory was pushed progressively south and east into Dudley before he finally lost control of even this area under sustained pressure from the Piva male, becoming nomadic in late 2014.
