On the 25th of April while Shaun were watching a breeding herd of elephants the sound of lions fighting at a kill were heard. He raced to the spot to find the 2 big males, the Mother lion and the 3 young males feeding on a freshly killed impala.

Yesterday morning while Shaun were looking at a giraffe bull on the Hearne cutline a herd of buffalo came charging past. He went in the direction of where they were coming from and found one of the 4 young male lions on the back of a huge buffalo bull. Unfortunately the battle was a bit one sided and the buffalo managed to throw the lion off and disappeared into the bush. We then watched in anticipation as the 4 lions stalked the buffalo herd again. They proceeded to chase them right past our vehicles and we followed in hot pursued, but once again the buffalo were lucky enough to escape.

We found the 2 big male lions at a buffalo kill on Mahlolwa road on the 29th of March and then saw them feeding on the carcass for several consecutive days. Noengu Mafasi and her 4 cubs were seen several times during the month and they were seen at 2 kills, at a waterbuck on the 4th and at a warthog at the 8th of April. The riddle of which lionesses had cubs and who had how many was also solved. I can now confirm that that Noengu Mafazi has 4 cubs, Kokwana has 5 cubs and the Mother Lion has 2 cubs. In other words Pondoro now has 11 cubs roaming around in our traversing area.

This video was also taken at the warthog kill. We were very lucky to have the cubs suckling in the open right next to the vehicle.

Shaun took this video of Noengu Mafazi and her 4 cubs playing close to the warthog kill on the 9th of April.

We found the 2 big males Big Boy and Mazinyo on the morning of the 28th of March on Xintowana road and that afternoon Shaun found them on Xigamba road and took this footage of Mazinyo roaring.