On the 18th of December guests visiting Pondoro had the luck to witness a huge pride of 19 lions catching and killing a wildebeest during the night safari. Shaun, one of the rangers, watched the whole drama unfold as it took them more than an hour to stalk and catch their meal. The noise and sound of the fighting and feeding were incredible.

As stated earlier one of the 4 year old lionesses has got cubs as well. We found her and 2 cubs on the afternoon drive of the 21st of September and followed her to a freshly killed wildebeest. The cubs were very active and it provided for excellent photo opportunities.

After unsuccessfully trying to find the lions during the afternoon drive we stopped at Singwe Big dam for sundowners. We found the whole pride making their way towards the dam barely 200meters after we got going again.

On the 6th of September we found the York pride on a baby giraffe kill. Andries, my tracker, followed the tracks and walked right into them. As always the Mother Lion charged and she seems to be getting grumpier with old age. The pride settled down quickly after I picked him up again and we enjoyed a wonderful hour watching them feeding on the giraffe.

I took this photos of a male leopard early evening at Hamerkop dam on the 3rd of September. If you look carefully you will see the wound on his right flank which was probably caused during a territorial fight with another male.