Happy New Year everyone!
I hope the Festive Season was a magical one for everyone. This week we celebrate a fantastic selection of images highlighting the lush greenery that adorns the landscape currently. With a healthy amount of rain falling thus far saturating the earth, grass sends forth emerald green blades while culms extend skywards donning their inflorescences. Shrubbery and trees dense with foliage are the perfect backdrops.
Now turning to the actual wildlife at the core of each image, elephants, hippos, giraffes, and buffalos are thriving and loving the summertime pleasures of food everywhere you look and water never too far away. Dung beetles with an abundance of their favourites too. Vervet monkeys groom their babies. Klipspringers at sunset. All making for great photographic opportunities.
On the predator front, the Ndzhenga Males continue to patrol their territory, making their presence known in the hopes of warding off any rivals. A Ntsevu Female spends her afternoon resting near a waterhole before setting off on an evening mission.
The Flat Rock Male strides across a set of large boulders in an amazing scene. The gaping yawn of the Ximungwe Female as she rests on a termite mound. The Maxim’s Male enjoys an impala carcass in the limbs of a large tree as the sun sets. We add a couple of images of the Ngungwe Female from the sighting of her in the large jackalberry tree. The Ntomi Male is also found in the branches of a marula tree scanning the crests for any prey to hunt.
Enjoy this Week in Pictures…
A dominant male leopard over the majority of the north. He originally took over the 4:4 Male’s territory when he died.
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Having been viewed by vehicles from an early age, this leopard is supremely relaxed around Land Rovers.
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Fairly skittish male that is presumed to have come from the Kruger National Park.
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Young inquisitive beautiful female, bordering on independence as of November 2021
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A single cub of the Ximungwe Female’s second litter. Initially rather skittish but is very relaxed now. Birth mark in his left eye.
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