Lions of Timbavati

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From Tintswalo Update & Photos by Alistair Leuner while Christof Shoeman is on leave!


SAFARI UPDATE:   The Young Avoca Males Make a Return to Manyeleti The game viewing over the past few days at Tintswalo has been incredible. We have been inundated with Male lions. The young Avocas made a strong return in the south west near Pungwe camp, trailing a huge herd of 500 buffalo and making their presence known by roaring into the night. In the South, the 2 Birmingham males were found with the Nkuhuma pride on a buffalo kill which they finished off very quickly. We are sure that the young Avocas won't venture to far South or they will meet up with 4 powerful Birmingham males. It would be much better for them to head to the central regions of the reserve which seems to be the home of the Mothlawareng pride. They do have 2 young males but the Avocas will be too much of a force for them to hold off. The Lone Thanda Impi was also found in the central reserve looking healthy and also calling one morning. He seems to be a complete nomad as the Nharu pride and Mbiri Pride were all found the past few days and the Thanda Impi never seemed to join either of these prides. As we move further North, the Giraffe male was found around Tintswalo looking very thin and worse for wear. His limp on his back leg looks quite bad and he has been alone but constantly looking for his coalition partners. The Avoca male and red road pride was also found in the north feeding off a young kudu. This male still looks great and the pride is doing really well with 3 females and 2 youngsters.

Young Avoca males

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Old Avoca male

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The Giraffe male

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Avoca/Giraffe male 

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