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BTW I noticed the same behaviour now in Feb at that waterhole from Wildebeest. There was no other water and after a few attempts to get water they eventually gave up and left without drinking. Something must be in there.
Bees? Wasps? Maybe a Honey badger den? Large cobra?
Would love to know.
It's not the reflection.

Very much later when it was nearly dark, the mother appeared with both cubs suddenly and crossed the river. I could not get a decent pic of the three of them but here she is with one of the cubs. This was about 5 minutes before the gates closed.

interesting... will go to know

Wow what a lovely sighting!!!

Lovely sighting Peterpiper
The wonderful picture of the cub under the tree is the same cub as KG posted in the Recent SIghtings thread...L-12 (name will change).

The second picture is Rooiputs on the left and the second cub. This is the first picture of the second cub i've seen.

Could i ask you to send me an email with the sighitng info, and attach as many pics as you can of the cubs. They will be really very useful for the guide.

Sent you all the info and pics today.

Just catching up again after a long absence from the forum.

WOW! Fantastic sightings Sharifa, shane, frisian and peterpiper!
Thank you all for posting!

A very interesting sighting of Dakotah and Amur. Also, great to know that Barolong's cubs are doing well, also that Rooiputs and her cubs are happy and healthy.

I am still hoping for more posts/info on Safran's cub.

Just a note - there are now 49 leopards in the ID guide/project(with peterpiper's 2nd Rooiputs cub)! (AstroMatt - it has come quite a way from nov 2011! )

So, who will post/report the 50th leo?

Excellent point Wanderw!!....who will find the 50th???

will try... will try in less than one month
but for Safran's cub... "only" 2 nights at Nossob (and in the Nossob river)
I search, and search, nothing... till now

You are making me very green Stunning image peterpiper

Hope they still hang around TR?

I've still not had a 50th leopard identification yet so it is still up for grabs...@Anne-Marie, you must be heading up soon so fingers crossed

These last few months I've been trying to increase the general awareness of the leopard id project with the aim of increasing reports of the kgalagadi leopards. This has been done through more guides in the park and some flyers in a few camps. I've also created a website, the address is the same as where the guide was http://www.ast.uct.ac.za/~schurch/leopards/ . It contains some of the basic information about the project, how it started, science issues, recent guide etc. A major part of the site is a sighting report web form. It is easy to fill in and will automatically send me the details of your sighting with all the infor i need from you. You'll still need to email me the confirmation photos as i've not found a way of allowing them to be uploaded yet, but i'm working on it.

My plan is that this web report from will replace the sighting spread sheet that i've been asking people to fill in. Obviously please continue reporting here too as everyone likes to see the shots you get, not just me . However, if you've been luck enough to have a whole bunch of leopard sightings then it might actually be easier to use the spreadsheet....its up to you I've updated the spreadsheet so that it matches the questions on the web form so please download a new version.

The site will be evolving as i have time...hopefully with identification pages and more info on each leopard, so watch this space.
Please take a look at this site and let me know what you think. I'd also really appreciate you sharing it with any friends or people you meet both whilst in and out of the Kgalagadi.

Cheers
Astromatt

thank you AstroMatt, thank you once more
It will be useful... in 10 days
and I promise you... maybe... another pictures of Safran and co

what a magnificent site
you did a lot of work, for us Leopards lovers

Thanks AstroMatt for putting this together

The leopard magnet, aka Sharifa, is back in KTP in July....

But I hope we get number 50 before then.

Wow stunning work done AstroMatt.........

We'll be in the park next week.........will try and get some luck from Sharifa.............