Leopards of Sabi Sands

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As for map, there was a good run down on adult females present by Tristan on one recent* Wild Earth drives during Xidulu sighting - he was naming female who are around Xidulu makign a point how there is a lot of young animals, on their first surviving litter or younger, some still setting up territory - anyway, based on that info:

N of Xidulu* are Cara* and Luna
E of Xidulu*are Tlalamba*,Thandi*, Sibuye and Kuchava* and further east Inkayeni and Mondzo
W of Xidulu* are Ndzutini, Tiyani and Moya
S of Xidulu* is Xindzele

That likely covers most ofnorthern Sabi Sands plus up to Manyeleti river to the west.

*females with asterisk were spotted on Wild Earth drives in last few days, namely Xidulu, Cara, Tlalamba, Kuchava and Thandi (wtih Maribye, her male cub). As well as the run down summarized above was given. Some of those sightings were quite helpful regarding females location and their territories, especially Xidulu encounter with Tlalamba, resulting in clear landmarks those two scentmark as a border till today, which is likely to be observed quite regularly as Tlalamba patrols very close to Djuma camp, so if that stays it might become a somewhat reliable sighting (the crossroads of Vuyatela Acces and Zoe's roads west of camp is where Tlalamba scentmarks before turning back east).

The other interesting one is Cara, who is now north of Sidney Dam on Buffelshoek, hoisting kill after kill in marulas and overlooking the open landscape there, which migh have been bit of vacant spot leopard wise. The Thandi + Maribye sighting is worth it for unrelentness playfulness of the young cat, not much new about them otherwise they are still close to Chitwa Dam.

And Tlalamba might be pregnant (nothing confirmed yet). Reply