We have all been racking up the sightings this week- and normally it’s pretty much just elephants! Poster got to see a leopard the other day when he was out for the afternoon, and the morning before last I saw my first Delta honey badgers. For anyone who hasn’t been lucky enough to see a honey badger in the bush- it is hard to explain just how wonderful they are! They strut around like they own the place- I like to call them the gangsters of the bush! I was driving to check Mthondo early, and as it was completely overcast it was still almost pitch back around sunrise. As I approached tractor crossing there they were in the road. Two honey badgers just strutting around! I watched them for a few minutes in my lights before they headed into the bush. Wonderful.
And lions… we just can’t get away from them right now! A couple of weeks ago a group of seven killed a baboon RIGHT by camp, you could see them from the table I am sitting at right now! We all agreed that was a LITTLE too close. Since then I was lucky to bump into a lovely looking male a few days ago when I was drivinga route looking for elephants. Last night again I drove straight past a lioness lying in the grass by the road, I noticed her just as I passed and she twitched. And this morning there were seven very FAT lions lying by Mthondo camp, when I was in fact tracking Mthondo again. I called the guides inand was in a bit of a rush to find Mthondo so carried on. But when I returned a couple of hours later they were in exactly the same place- digesting whatever it is in those fat bellies, that they must have killed last night or this morning, as they lay behind a bush. I picked up the others from theboma, where they had been collecting and preparing dung samples this morning in the brand-new-sparkly lab over there, and we went back and were able to watch them for a while. The kings of the bush… resting… they do a lot of resting!
Male lion
Charlie
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