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Hi all Forumites

Me and Samoesa Woestyn are off to KNP in June 2009, and specifically searching for rare antelopes i.e. Sable, Roan, Eland, Lichtensteine, Reedbuck, Suni...

Please share all lately sightings of these very rare animals.

Thanks

Hi

I must say, we have always seen Sable at Pretoriuskop, and Transport dam! But that's the one thing I love about nature, it reminds you too never stand still!

Hope this helps!

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Tzendze 7-14 July 2009
Satara 14 - 19 July 2009

Thanks Lujole

Hope to see Sable there.

Why not scour the topics about them?
Sable is 'easy', just look around Talamati, as you can see in the topic about them.
Roan? The loop around Mopani is good for them, again posted in it's topic...

Eland? I saw hundreds! But that was in KTP...

So true Du Ques, I have never seen Eland in KNP! If you see them again please let me know where they are and where to look! Please send a pic as well we would really like to see them

Hi Capt Zapman

Your name sounds important, and fast!!!

As your companion on your planned trip, SW, would know, Laksman and I were so fortunate to see Tsetsebe, Eland and Roan simultaniously at Tihongonyeni windmill on the S143, north of Mopani. What I didn’t mention on the Eland topic, is that we spent 2 hours there. On a previous occasion, I spent an hour there, and suddenly a Roan appears. Point is, sometimes it helps to sit and wait at a spot and see what happens.

We saw Reedbuck in the vlei area at Nshawu No 5 (S 50) on the same trip.

I have never seen Lichtensteins in KNP.

Hi Skopsie

I saw that picture and it's truely a very good sighting.

in sept last year i saw +- 25 sables in 2 days

orpen - skukuza gravel rd the picnic spot i saw(sorry no map cant give names)
i saw these three


note the collard male




then a bit further down the road(through a dip)
these there were about 12-13











then between numbi and pkop, another 10-12, no pics was on scent of wild dogs.

joekin how lucky
nice sightings

Have seen Sable on two occasions recently.

1st - Right at Orpenklippe on the H1-2
2nd - At Jones-se-Dam on the S36

Thanks, i would have been happy with just one....

Sables haven't seen any yet...

OK OK, but you've seen leopards, i haven't seen in 14+- years

how you spookie

I have always seen sabe around pretoriouskop, and on the sweni road. I have seen tsessebee often between letaba and mopani. I have only seen Eland twice and Lichtestein Hartebeest once both north of Shingwedzi. I havent seen Roan for ages but when I did it was north of Letaba

I have only seen Eland once in KNP, on (next to) Olifants road H8. Otherwise see some daily 1km from home.

Roan, saw a small herd on s36 couple of years ago and even more years ago a big herd on H10 between s29 and s129.

Sable, odd sightings at Pretoriuskop and up north.

Tssessebe almost always at Tihongonyeni water hole on the s143 (tropic of capricorn loop). Also on the HI-1 after seeing the big 5 from Skukuza to Pretoriuskop we saw a Tssessebe, no one else stopped. For me it was now the big 6 seen. Strange area to see one ?, just a couple of kms from PK.


Poorish pic as dark already.

Lichtenstein Hartebeest once many years ago.

Happy 'hunting' look forward to seeing the pics