A lone wild dog was found at the Lagoon airstrip, making contact calls for the rest of her pack. After a while, she stopped calling, but remained in the area.
Two herds of eland were found next to Cutline Pan, and a roan antelope was also seen near the upper Kwando road.
It took several hours of tracking before we located six female lions (four of them sub-adults), relaxing under the shade of a Kalahari Apple leaf. A dominant male was also found with them. A little later in the month, we came across the six lionesses again, scavenging on the remains left behind by a pack of wild dogs.
On the 27th April, two dominant male lions were found along Diolo road. The animals were running as we found them, and about 400m further along we saw the reason why: two intruder males were in the area. Well ahead of us, the dominant males ran straight at the intruders, and from a distance, we could see the fight begin. It lasted all of 2 minutes, before the intruders were defeated and ran away as fast as they could. A couple of days later, we discovered that the intruders had not gone far, when we found them with near Baruti waterhole, with one of the males mating with one of the lionesses.
Towards the end of the month, the Lagoon pack of dogs were located only 3 minutes drive from camp. The animals successfully hunted a female kudu, and then they stayed in the area for the rest of the day, mostly relaxing.
The elephant herds are back in the area again, after disappearing for a short while just after the heavy rains. Probably feeling like a very large group of yo-yos this year, the elephants have been to-ing and froing into the mopane bushveld as the weather patterns become increasingly confusing.
