LEOPARDS - in Nkorho and Elephant Plains Area

WOW!!!!!

I Love LEOPARDS!

MAY 27

africam cats

Cats- of nkorho & elephant plains

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ERIK  SCHRAM

Dear friends of Tembe Elephant Park,

From the second week of July I will continue the Tembe Leopard Project I started in 2007. One of the objectives is to determine the population size and to identify different leopard in Tembe Elephant Park.

I want to ask especially the help of the people that control or watch the Tembe webcam at nighttime (Tembe night time) to take shots print screens or so if you see any leopard on the webcam. Try to zoom in at the animals head, front, lef and right side for ID purposes.

Via this way you can contribute to the conservation of the Tembe leopard.

On behalf of the Tembe leopards: Thank you for your contribution.

may 13

cam pic  pat steele hofius

Erik Schram

This Leopard shall be named Erik - should it be a female ' Erika '.

A second leopard occasionaly visits, it shall be Robert or Roberta.

This is in recognition for the work done by volunteers Erik and Robert of the Netherlands for their work on the Tembe leopards.

may 06

leopard returns it was their last night also

LEOPARD MAY 06  TE

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this pic from months ago

SEPTEMBER  11  2011

pic of same leopard in the post above taken months ago

SEPTEMBER  11  2011

Sun, 03/04/2011 - 7:36am

EP Leopard

This is a really interesting thread thanks for taking such care to keep us informed!

I just read about the demise of Tijolo - sorry if the spelling is out - that was a really nicely written report.

Great to see such fantastic pics of these beautiful animals

nov 10 leopard nk

nov 09

leopard at nk pan  great pic

LEOPARD NK PAN OCT 22

Mvula. June 2011

thanks to  geschue  for use of photo,s

Hello again, just found some pics from the leopardkill in 2000 at LeopardCam, hope I'm allowed to post them here

..... and yes it was Tjololo !!!!

*** gone but not forgotten ***

1995 - 2007 ( november)

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/10/01/html/ft_20011001.5.html

The Rock Drift male (Tjololo)

TJOLOLO - THE LEGENDPublished by Wildcaster 2 months, 1 week ago Tags: africa, animal kingdom, conservation, education, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, leopard, mala mala, national geographic, Open Content Alliance, peace parks, photos, predators, teach, wildcasting, wildlife.

TJOLOLO – THE LEGEND
This morning Tjololo was found on Mala Mala in a really bad way.
His was very lean, his coat looking terrible and had many porcupine quills stuck in his body. A vet was called in and Tjololo was darted. He had quills in his throat his chest and even his paws. Some quills about 5 inches deep in his body. The vet removed these all and cleaned him up, but Tjololo never came round again after antidote was administered.
This was probably the best way for him to go, as he would probably just have continued to suffer in ill health.

I first saw Tjololo in 1999 as a young 4 year old leopard setting up his territory on Mala Mala Game Reserve. It was then I made a film about him, “Stalking Leopards” for National Geographic. I spent 18 months in the field with him following his every movement every day. He became a close friend as this image alone speaks to.
Tjololo had just killed this kudu cow and was dragging it off. I got out the vehicle and lay on the ground to take photos. He could drag the carcass anywhere, but wanted to go where I was lying, and so did just that. He dragged the kudu within touching distance of me and didn’t so much as give me a glance. What a trusting dude.

He was small male leopard but feisty. As time went by Tjololo began to take control of a larger territory encompassing nearly the whole of Mala Mala. On several occasions he came across much bigger males who we thought were REAL dudes and in just about every confrontation the little man came out the victor. And then in time he started trespassing outside Mala Mala still increasing his domain. He RULED!
But in the last 6 months his condition has been seen to deteriorate as he’s been getting on and would now be 12 years old. Not a bad innings for a male leopard.
I left Mala Mala in 2005 in which time I’d made another 2 films, “Predators at War” and “Hyena Queen”, both of which featured Tjololo in numerous sequences.
He also did me really proud when he was the feature of my cover story in the National Geographic Magazine 2001.
He was a very special leopard and I’m just so grateful to have shared so much time with him.

NOTE   THIS STORY WAS FORM SEVERAL YEARS

AGO WHEN Josh and Andre WERE

RANGER,S  AT NK LODGE

reports of  a *  HYENA   and    LEOPARD *

and a  kill of a   WILDEBEEST CALF   required

a look  -

From what I could make out of the events. Leopard killed a baby wildebeest, hyena stole it and drug it by the water hole. Must have been heavy. Leopard shadowed the hyena and when it saw it's chance when the hyena left the kill, leopard snatched it and ran for the Marula tree and treed the kill. Hyena came back for kill and it was gone. Started to turn to leave when the kill fell from the tree. Hyena hearing the sound ran to the tree and apparently snatched the kill and drug it off again. Few minutes later the Leopard left and was seen walking right of the water hole heading for direction back behind the cam view.

This morning Josh and Andre saw blood and some morsels of the kill probably from when it fell. Also saw claw marks on the tree. They found the hyena with the entire kill in it's mouth about 300 meters away from the marula tree back in the direction of the Kruger boundary/behind and out of cam view. The Leopard appeared only meters away from them and stole it's kill back and began eating it to possibly lighten the weight prior to treeing it again

thanks to  ---  AQUILA  FOR THAT