First stop, the sausage tree where the leopard had stashed its baboon kill .
We are there before sunrise and so is the leopard...
actually not one but two leopards are in the same tree.... one on a
branch on the right side eating the baboon and the other on a branch
on the left side just looking....
The baboon is big and it is a really impressive catch for a female
leopard like this one... must have taken lot of skills and courage to
attack the monkey... and apparently she did yesterday in broad
daylight.... Chapeau!
The sun slowly came up bringing colors back to life... the leopard is
clearly visible, she is plucking hairs from the baboon and eating
flesh... after sometime she moved and dragged the baboon to another
branch, closer to the other leopard. She snarled at it, and the second
one, probably a grown female cub of her, snarled back. The first one
moved the monkey in the fork but doing that she lost the grip and
dropped the carcass on the ground... she moved down and we did not see
her again... we could see that she tried to climb again, bushes were
moving below the tree and eventually we heard her dragging it in
thicker bush.
After some minutes the other cat moved also, checked were the baboon
was laying before and then followed the first female down the tree....
what can you ask more before 8 in the morning?
Second drive for Mika and second leopard sighting... not bad.
We moved out of the area towards Mdonya juu, there we found the local
pride feeding on a impala ram, there was almost nothing left but was
still fun to watch the cubs in the river bed.
The river drive was quite empty but eventually we got a real treat....
I heard vervet monkey alarming from the top of some acacias, we looked
around everywhere but nothing... no eagle in the sky, no cats on the
ground... we watched we watched we watched but nothing so eventually
we left and climbed up the roads towards r23... in the open plain just
50 mtrs up I stopped the car. Zebras were very nervous, two sides of a
herd some metrs apart all looking towards the same point... at the
beginning we could not see anything... but in few seconds a beautiful
male cheetah walked out of the tall grass.
That's why the monkeys were alarming, from up the tree they could see
the cheetah from far away, we could not see but they were telling us
about the cat...
Awesome, the cheetah walked by the side of the road, checked the
surroundings under a big euphorbia and went to drink down in the
river... after gulping a lot of water he moved off and crossed the
Ruaha river to the other side.
Big elephant on the way back...
In the afternoon I had to drive new guests so I tried with the
leopards with no luck and ended up looking at the same lions of the
morning.... then I got a call....
Mika that was driving the other guests got a leopard at the second
mbagi forest.... we drove there fast and we found him waiting for us,
the leopard, a cub, was there and we enjoed the sighting as the sun set.
Third leopard for Mika in three drives... the guy has definitely
something with the spotted one...
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