7 members of the Nduna pride downed a buffalo calf. It's cries bring back the herd. The lions try to hang on to their prize but are chased off by the buffalo several times. The calf's mother comes to its assistance and amazingly after being under lion tooth and claw for 10 minutes the calf gets up and follows its mother. Daily action live from the bus on Wildcast.net
In the little time Manyari has to herself she grooms and collapses exhausted. She's hardly rested and the male is on to her, this time missing the mark. He waits till she arouses and they mate, the male again up to his tap-dancing antics. Their rest is shortlived when the brother comes running in. He is quickly intercepted by the mating male and kept away from Manyari.
Less than a year old, the CUTEST little elephant calf was going absolutely wild in a mud wallow. And once everyone had left he slipped and slid not able to get out sliding back into the 'melting pot of mud'. Tried again, with lots of slipping and sliding and eventually made it out.
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I thought this lactating lioness was heading to her cubs in the hills. But then Nduna, the pride male, arrived on the scene being very possesive of her. He had competition. A young male of the Nduna pride also had eyes on the lioness. Nduna stayed close to her side while the other male kept a watchful eye for an opening. This behaviour looked like typical lion foreplay.
A pack of hyaenas march on a wild dog den and the wild dogs take the battle to the hyaenas. But soon realising their pups are safe the wild dogs back off.
In the throws of giving birth the calf is coming out all wrong. The mother tries desperately to give birth but in 3 hours there is no change. The calf appears to be dead. Now to survive the cow needs to rid herself of the foetus. Will she make it?
It was a beautiful sunset over Banyini pan when in the distance I heard the distress calls of a buffalo. Racing over there I found a male lion had downed a huge bull. As it struggled a second lion arrived and went straight for the stranglehold muffling the bulls distress calls.
Manyari sustained a massive injury while chasing after zebra in thick bush last night. A tree stump ripped muscle and skin away from her chest and another huge gash in her groin. She was in a lot of pain and coulnd't even lick her wounds. She managed to take only 10 steps and lay down for the rest of the night.
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The wild dogs had killed a Sharpe's Grysbok but the tiny antelope was hardly going to feed one dog, let alone the whole pack. The last remaining morsel was wanted by all and the owner wasn't left in peace. All the pups hassled the owner and eventually nobody got to eat the last morsel.
White rhino's were close to extinction in the early 1900's but with conserted conservation efforts in South Africa, their numbers have bounced back from possible extinction.
A herd of wildebeest sauntered into the area the pups were resting and the pups just had to hassle them. There are some youngsters in the herd but that's not what the pups are after. For now it's just a game and anything that turns its back on them just has to be chased. Eventually the pups get bored with the stalemate and move off to hassle some zebra.
