Lions of Sabi Sands

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(12-17-2023, 10:40 PM)Tonpa Wrote: Monday, 11 December 2023

• The Talamati break aways consisting of one adult female and three sub-adults, feeding on an impala ram at PU corner.
• The two Black dam male lions with five Nkuhuma lioness, feeding on a young giraffe at Ngala open.
• The four Kambula male lions, static at the junction of Rhino Pan Road with Nyati road.
  

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

• The four Kambula male lions with one Kambula young female, sleeping on Elephant Plains airstrip.
• The unfortunate event of witnessing two Nkuhuma lionesses killing Tiyani, the female leopard’s four-month-old cub. (the sighting was immediately closed as guides were unaware of lion’s present)
• Two Black Dam male lions mobile east along Second Windmill Road.
  

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

• Kambula pride of lions consisting of four males and one female stationary on the southern side of Arathusa Safari Airstrip.
• Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of eight lioness feeding on a waterbuck kill east of Big Dam Link South.
  

Thursday, 14 December 2023

• Nkuhuma pride of lions consisting of ten lioness and one Black Dam male lion stationary on Kudu Drift junction Seepline West.
  

Friday, 15 December 2023

• One Black Dam male lion stationary on First Windmill Road.
  

Saturday, 16 December 2023

• One Kambula male lion stationary at Arathusa Safari Dam.
  

Sunday, 17 December 2023

• One Unidentified male lion mobile east from Baobab Dam.
  

Boabab Dam Male

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So the Black Dam males are still hanging with the Nkuhuma lionesses, pretty regularly as well. It seems they haven't been driven off completely yet. Maybe that report of them fleeing south was something misinterpreted.

Looks like that could be K4 in the picture of the unidentified male? Reply