Game sightings have been fantastic at Kanana throughout the winter months, and particularly good during August.

Two male leopards have been spotted on numerous occasions; at just 18 months old they have defined their territories with one living right under our noses at camp, and the other one keeping his distance over the bridge.

Kanana’s pride of seven lions have been seen every day so far this month. Lions aren’t particularly good or keen climbers, so it has been interesting to see the lionesses sitting in mangosteen and jackalberry trees – it appears that they are climbing the trees to evade the biting flies which pester them constantly on the ground. The male lions don’t seem to be so bothered by the flies, although this may simply be because their minds are on other things: one of the lions spent a full five days mating with four different lionesses.

The same pride of lions seems to have a taste for giraffe at the moment. Together they took down a giraffe in the woods near camp last week and almost immediately discovered another one by the bridge. This second giraffe had recently died of old age – a fact which didn’t seem to bother our hungry pride – and the seven lions shared two large giraffes over the course of just a few days.