Lions, a Leopard & One Unlucky Impala

In the morning, we set off with Gully to continue tracking the male lion and to see if it had found its buddy or its brother in the pride. We found the one male pretty easily, but the other one was nowhere to be found. He is an impressive beast, with a full mane. You can hear his call in the video as he’s trying to find his pal—same as what we heard overnight.

While out in the bush, we saw a black-backed jackal, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, birds and a couple of‘slender mongoose.’ We also ran across the lionesses and their juveniles—no sightings of the mom with the cute cubs.

The other jeep’s guide, Fahna, spotted drag marks and leopard tracks. He followed the tracks to a spot where where the leopard had stashed a freshly killed impala in a tree and was pacing below. By the time we got there, the leopard was eating away on its dinner in the tree.

At our sundown happy hour, Darryl spotted a lion slowly making its way toward us. We all gathered near the two jeeps and soon it turned and walked away, whew!Read more