Lions of Timbavati

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Tanda Tula update

Our less-feathered friends also did their bit this week. In lion news, the nicest surprise was hearing that the River Pride were found with a zebra kill near our northern boundary. The pride spent the day around the kill but by late afternoon, they had moved back north leaving the remains for the hyenas and vultures that were waiting ever-so-patiently. The four lionesses and all four cubs were looking in great shape, and we hope that they pop back again soon. That night, the Mayambula Pride may have passed within a kilometre of where the River Pride had their kill, but fortunately neither pride was aware of the other. The latter group of girls returned after an absence of several days and made a nuisance of themselves around Machaton Dam one morning, attempting to hunt giraffes (albeit unsuccessfully), before turning their attention to a small family of Egyptian geese with a bunch of goslings. The young lionesses chased after the flock, and the adult geese immediately ran off feigning injury hoping to draw the lions’ attention away from their goslings, but it only worked on one lioness, and the other couple each managed to grab a couple of the little geese. Some good news is that two of the lionesses are showing signs of producing milk, so we should have new cubs sooner than I was expecting. Both Skorro males reunited with the pride towards the end of the week, after we spent time with one of the males as he roared continuously looking for the pride earlier on. The two Sark Breakaway lions were seen once during the week, but then pulled a disappearing act and completely vanished. We also caught up with the Hercules and Sumatra male lions in the north-eastern part of their territory one evening. It was good to spend time with these two impressive males, even if the Hercules male was looking a little underfed. Sadly, there were no sightings of the Giraffe Pride and their cubs this week.

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