Tuesday 9 July 2013

Following up on Male leopard tracks in the area south of the Sand river, it could only have been Dawone.
And as usual, he is always up to something and this time he had company,  Xhicavi. This female lets you word hard to find her, but if she is with Dawone or any other male she's fairly relaxed.
Seeing these cat together like this, is special because leopards are solitary animals and only seen together when mating, fighting or a female with cubs. 


The Selati Males have over powered the most well known coalition of male lions, Mapogo's, that controlled the Sands for a long time, more than a year a go. And to show that they are here to stay, they have increased the numbers of both the Xhimungwe lionesses(6 cubs), as well as the Ottowa lionesses(8 cubs). 


Tai Dam male is a upcoming leopard, northeast of the Sand river.
Very relaxed but because of the vegetation in the north, we don't see him that often.
 
Nice to have cubs in the system again and it is nice to see the cubs growing up.
This is one of the Xhimungwe cubs. The cubs are now off milk and on meat. Imprinting is very obvious at this stage of the lives.
Imprinting is the behavior of young animals playing, jumping, mimicking adults. All of these are learning behavior, which would serve as basic survival skills.    
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