Lions of Timbavati

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Tanda Tula update

In other news, our Mayambula Pride and Skorro males remained quite active in the eastern sections, and we could hear the roars of the male lions at Tanda Tula Safari Camp on most nights this week.  The Sark Breakaways seem to be making a habit of daytime hunting, and we found them looking hungry and, on the prowl, late one morning.  We left them heading towards a neighbouring camp and heard that later in the day they managed to catch themselves a kudu not far from where we left them!  That afternoon there were another two members of the Sark pride in the same area, but they were in the presence of two of the five Vuyela males.  Sadly, I was out in the far east so didn’t get to catch up with the coalition.  I 

A few days later I was very happy to hear that three of the Vuyela males were found in the main part of our concession, and planned on going out to see them in the afternoon. Uncharacteristically for lions, the three boys had gotten up and moved not just from their resting spot, but also off of our western boundary and into the Klaserie.  They were however replaced in that spot by two Sark lionesses!  It is encouraging to see this pride pushing deeper into the central Timbavati and into the void that the River Pride left. 

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