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We spotted lions this morning, bushbuck pride, females, males and cubs. We called Owen and he came because a buffalo herd was approaching.
Buffaloes are close and even if lions are a bit fed they keep moving towards them. Eventually the herd moved in the woods and the lions left them.

Beautiful birds feeding on termites at the kopjes of old airstrip, superb starlings and Von der Deckens Hornbills were feasting in the sun.

Went back in the same lion's spot with Carlo, the owner in the afternoon... lions in the same spot but the other side of the river another herd of at least 1000 buffaloes is coming to drink.... lions move in the river bed closing the gap with the buffs.... they sit in th tall grass while the path finders of the herd come closer... we hold our breath.... but buffaloes change their mind, go back and nothing happens.

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Owen

Owen came to camp, his car has some problems. He is a well known film maker and cameraman and he is working since last year on a documentary about lions and buffaloes in the Ruaha and most important he is great fun.
This morning we went to look for two leopards probably mating around black rocks, we looked everywhere but even if we could hear the vervet monkeys alarm call we could not see the leopards anywhere. Shame!
Only carnivore we saw was hyenas eating the legs of the giraffe killed by lions few days ago.
In the afternoon we went out again fro a little stroll and go a young elephant bull pretending he was big and strong as a mature male.
Good one-

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I love this female

She is a little leopard and she is very beautiful. She is different from any other leopard I know. She loves being watched. We found her not far from black rocks with the help of Ayoub from Mdonya.
She walked up in front of he car and walked ten meters far, as we started the car to follow instead of running away she sat down and waited us to approach, she let us close completely undisturbed and after ten minutes she moved. She kept walking for 20 and more mtrs then we started the car and moved 20 mtrs in front of her. She slowly arrived close to us and sat again in front of the car.
We played like that for an hour and eventually went back home.
I love her.

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