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Dec 28
2011
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sighting of leopard and cubPosted by: ranger in SBT - Daily Game Reports on Dec 28, 2011 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 28th December 2011
Sighting of leopard and cub.
About half an hour into our game drive this morning, our spotter’s sharp eyes caught a mother leopard and cub over a distance of about 200 meters watching the plains on top of a small rounded rock. It was as if they were hunting as they kept on changing positions every so often. Thereafter they walked down towards a small riverine forest and emerged out on the side of our vehicle and the guests had a good view of them. As they headed towards a nearby Kopje, some monkeys began making a lot of barking and screaming noises in fear of them. The cub playfully walked behind the mother till they disappeared behind some huge rocks while the monkeys kept a watch from a distance.
| Animals sighted | Rangers | Kokan | Deus | Gordon | Jaffery | Birdi | Other | Total |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 10 | 40 |
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200 |
250 | |||
| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 100 |
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100 | ||||
| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 200 | 100 |
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400 |
700 | |||
| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 1000 | 200 | 2000 |
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1000 |
4200 | ||
| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 200 | 100 | 500 |
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100 |
900 | ||
| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 2 | 10 |
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20 |
32 | |||
| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 200 |
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200 | ||||
| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland |
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| Grant’s Gazelle |
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| Hippopotamus | 20 | 10 |
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50 |
80 | |||
| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 100 | 40 |
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20 |
160 | |||
| Klipspringer |
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| Large-spotted Genet |
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| Leopard |
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| Lesser Bushbaby |
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| Lesser Kudu |
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| Lion | 2 | 4 |
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6 |
12 | |||
| Maasai Giraffe | 10 | 20 |
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2 |
32 | |||
| Olive Baboon |
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| Oribi |
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| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie | 6 | 20 |
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40 |
66 | |||
| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 2 | 5 |
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7 | |||
| Slender Mongoose |
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4 |
4 | |||||
| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 7 |
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7 | ||||
| Squirrel |
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| Steenbok |
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| Striped Hyena |
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| Striped Pole Cat/Zorilla |
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| Thick-tailed Bushbaby |
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| Thompson’s Gazelle | 200 | 100 |
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500 |
1700 | |||
| Topi |
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| Vervet Monkey | 30 | 25 |
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55 | |||
| Warthog |
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| Water Mongoose |
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| White-tailed Mongoose |
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| Wild Dog |
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NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers
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