We had an amazing start to our morning with not one, but two leopards.

Adolescent Nhenhe was in a tree with an impala kill and momma Xidulu was watching from nearby.

Nhenhe was taking a nap.

Xidulu decided to join him in the tree.

Xidulu

Nhenhe moving to a new branch.

Nhenhe went straight over to the kill so that his mother couldn’t eat any of it. Our guide says this is normal behavior at his age and that over the next few months Xidulu will spend less time with him and eventually leave him to fend for himself once he can hunt for himself.

A few hyena collected below Nhenhe waiting for something to be dropped. 

Xidulu took over the napping branch.

Eventually the waiting paid off for one of the hyena.

Black backed jackals

Hippos hanging out

Our guide stopped to point out a web of communal spiders which contains thousands of small spiders in a single web mass. Yes, he’s touching it. Tearing it apart, actually.

Part of a pride of 4 female lions.

We left Sabi Sands and went over to the Mala Mala Game Reserve for our last few days. These two reserves share a border, but for us to go from entrance to entrance the drive was over 2.5 hours. This area is known for having even more leopards.

Troop of baboons, the closest one is missing part of its right arm.

Our first leopard here was Stonedrift, a 3 year old female who decided to take a nap.

Southern white rhino with a baby

We were fortunate to see another group of 3 wild dogs. This group included one that had been collared for tracking. 

There were some male lions sleeping in tall grass in the riverbed.

Some more jackals in the distance at dusk.

Lion pride with cubs in the dark. This pride has been stealing items from a construction site at the camp’s landing strip including a container of tar and construction boots. The cubs were playing with the remains of a boot.

Back at our cabin, a South African small-spotted genet came to visit us. These are ferret/weasel like animals that are nocturnal, so harder to find and get pictures of.