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Thanks I'll look out for it . When was this photo taken?

A huge herd of buff were seen in the Satara area. Does anyone have an estimated number of animals in the herd?

Oom, a fair while ago I saw a huge herd of buffs in the Satara area too.... I am talking 5ish years ago ( flip that is a long time) Anyway, the TB research guys were there and said there were 900 in the herd. Think it could be the same herd?

Could very well be, DB. We esitmated it to be in the vicinity of about 800. An impressive sighting I have to say.

We found the herd on 30th June on the H1-4, just past the Gudzani turn-off, at about 6h30 the morning. They were just starting to move off the road where they obviously spent the night. We tried to count them, sorted them in groups of ten, and came up with a figure of around 800. Impressive sight.

I saw this herd two years ago. I also estimate this herd to be 800-900 individuals strong.

I saw a really huge herd at satara on the H7 at Nsemani dam on the 9/7/07. they were all crossing the dam. there were approx 150-200 that i could see, but there were tons more in the distant trees also.

Large herds of Buff will be found from Satara and to the north, there is a herd walking from Satara all the way up to Mopanie which is 1200 strong (This was now about 2 years ago), and it took them 45 minutes to just cross the S-100 heading north.

It surely is a sight so see such herds in the park.

I saw 2 very big herds of buffaloes 2 years ago.
One in the Satara area, I started couting them, stopped at a hundred and then estimated there was over 500 individuals


and another one on the Letaba river bed, going up the cliff towards Matambenhi hide.

3 young lions tried to get a young but had to step back when big buffaloes came at them ...It is quite far unfortunately, I saw that with binocs only.

sorry the photos are not very good

Not in the Satara area, but we came across a huge herd on the S28 this year, they were on and in either side of the road, and continued on for about 2 kms.
Difficult to count, but there must have been in excess of 500.+

Missed the beasts, but drove through their evidence continuously for about 3 kms on the S3 in Feb. Had to scrape at least 1500 layers of buffalo pat off my tyres afterwards. Couldn't smell anything else for a week.

In June a large buff herd came to the waterhole just outside the campsite at Punda. It was about 8 pm and the noise was just incredible! Munching and hooves. The whole camp was standing at the fence with flashlights. Don't know how many there were though.

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere already. A friend sent this to me, thought it was quite an amazing struggle between buffalo, lion, and crocodiles:

Video

It has, Red, many, many times: Battle at Kruger

Quite amazing, isn't it ?