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Lions of Sabi Sands
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The Southern Pride were resting in the far south-western reaches of the property yesterday afternoon, and once the sun had set, they had an unsuccessful hunting attempt on some waterbuck in the area. This morning they were on the move and hopefully will be successful in securing a meal.
Credits: sabisabireserve (08-22-2017, 05:43 AM)vinodkumarn Wrote: Looks like the Eyrefield Male cub is alive and trying to find the Adult Females Just got confirmation that, this is 3 week old video and as of now they are not sure whether the cub is alive or not
Nkuhuma pride vs Leopard’s
The unfortunate thing about the bush with the animals living in it, is that predators do not like each other. Time and again we have seen predators fighting with each other and it is one fight that you do not really want to see, because the dominant predator will win in most battles and the loser will most likely end up dead. Lions are the most dominate predator in the bush followed by the spotted hyena, leopard, wild dogs and then cheetah. Lions rule the bush, because of the fact that they are bigger and stronger than the other predators. Moving in a group makes it even more difficult to stand a chance against such a force. We had two sightings in one week were ones again the lions had showed that they were the top cat on the block. The sighting started when we were following four lionesses from the Nkuhuma pride with their six cubs and two Birmingham male lions down the road. Massive pride and it was great to see them all together, when all of a sudden, they went off into the bush where they had spotted something. The next minute all the females started to run deeper into the bush and our first instincts told us that they were hunting. We were right, they were hunting, but it was not one of our common antelope species, but Anderson, the male leopard. Luckily Anderson spotted the lions in the nick of time and manage to climb up a tree and three seconds later the hole Nkuhuma pride was standing under the tree watching him. Some of the pride members even tried to climb up the tree and you could see from the look on Andersons face that he did not find it very funny. The lions lost interest a few minutes later and gave Anderson time he needed to climb down the tree and run away. A very close shave. A couple of days later we had the same thing happing, but this time it was Tingana, the male leopard turns to climb for this live. Tingana killed an impala and was dragging it towards a very nice tree to hoist it and to get it in a save place away from danger, but the Nkuhuma pride that was not far from the area heard the impalas alarm calling, so the hole pride went to investigate. Tingana was about to put his kill up in the tree when he realised that he was not alone and that he was being followed. He left his kill at the base of the tree and went up. A very good dissection, because the pride made their appearance a few seconds later and stole Tingana’s hard worked kill. Most people think that hyenas are the scavengers of the bush, but research have shown that lions scavenge more than hyenas. When you find lions on a kill you automatically assume that the lions have made a kill, but you do not think that the king of the bush can scavenge from other predators. Tingana looked on as the pride finished off his impala kill in a few minutes. With their snack finished, the pride moved away from the tree to give Tingana an opportunity to jump down and run for his live. He did not even look back. He disappeared in the bush. It just showed that you always have to be aware what is happening around you and even if you are a predator you still have dangers lurking around every corner. I hope that you found the article informative. Credits: EP Ranger Louis Liversage 
NK Pride could have killed Karula last March, she cannot disappear like this, something happened
Monday, 14 August 2017 (26ºC)
MALAMALA TODAY: August 23rd. All eyes were on eastern Flockfield this morning with the discovery of an unidentified male lion, the remains of a buffalo kill and at least 20 riled up hyenas. We don't believe the aging male made the kill, perhaps lionesses did and he chased them off or perhaps it was the hyenas. Either way, the mob of hyenas grew over the course of the day and eventually they chased the male off (the gum around the males bottom teeth is severely swollen). Guests at the sighting had front row seats to the exhilarating ordeal and just to add to the madness, the Split Rock male leopard appeared on the scene but took one look at the chaos and moved off. Other lion sightings: 2 of the Manyelethi males were found at West Street Bridge and then began making their way towards eastern Flockfield. The 6 lionesses of the Kambula pride spent the day at Sand Pit Crossing were they had a brief but close-up interaction with a hippo. The Marthly pride killed a nyala bull close to Main Camp- they too had several hyenas for company. The 2 Avoca males were viewed in the southern parts of Charleston.
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Can someone identify the old Lion reported by Mala Mala above
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(08-22-2017, 01:17 AM)vinodkumarn Wrote:(08-22-2017, 01:07 AM)Michael Wrote:(08-21-2017, 11:11 PM)vinodkumarn Wrote:To my knowledge there is only one male cub excluding these new cubs which haven´t been sexed so I don´t know if there will be multiple male cubs(08-21-2017, 10:31 PM)Michael Wrote:(08-21-2017, 09:02 PM)vinodkumarn Wrote: What a magical morning, the first sighting of the new Nkuhuma cubs. Video to follow. ? Morné Fouché The Male cub is 15 months older than the newest litter, so it's unlikely he will still be around if any new male cubs make it to about 3 years old. Amber Eyes cub died on the day it was viewed in my opinion, it was far too young to withstand the rough play of the older cubs.
Jr and Buddy on H7 Tuesday 8-22-2017
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Credits to the Tsalala males FB page.
The Tsalala males have been in a fight during the night. 2 of them are injured around the hind legs and the 3:d one with the biggest mane is not with them. Credit  H. *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
(08-25-2017, 07:59 PM)Tshokwane Wrote: Credits to the Tsalala males FB page. Where are they? With whom did they pick fight.. Avocas/Mantimahles?
This morning we found the 2 Avoca males with an unidentified female lioness resting on top of a termite mound with 2 bull elephants playing behind them. The lioness, after a bit of rest, mated with both Avoca males, one after the next.
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One of my favoruite sightings of the week and a scene I have been hoping to see for a long time; the Ntsevu Pride resting on a set of boulders in the Sand River just downstream from Plaque Rock
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