Lions of Timbavati

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Tanda Tula update

The big news of the week was that Ginger got our first viewing of three of the new Mayambula cubs, albeit a brief one.  I then spent the next week trying my luck at the den site and only got to see tracks, fat mothers, proud fathers and little lion cub tracks around the den. I could even hear their cuteness emanating from the bushes, but sadly they did not want to show themselves.  It does appear that three mothers have dropped their cubs, with one of the lionesses having a den site just south of the accessible one we have been staking out.  Contrary to last week’s frustrations of looking for the lions, almost every trip to the south-east produced lion sightings, including the two Skorro males.  We will keep on trying, but it really cannot be long now before we get to see them!

The River Pride also helped fill in the gaps when the Mayambula Pride wasn’t playing along, and we got to enjoy their company on a couple of occasions.  The first time we got to see them they had just finished a young wildebeest, but from the size of the bellies, it looked as though the Nharhu male got the lion’s share of the meal.  A few days later the pride was back – sans male – and we watched as they went after some zebra, but they were not successful.  Tracks for the Ross and Hercules lionesses also showed that they were still around, but they remained unseen.

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