03 \02\11
We had 5 guests on our evening drive with Nelius, all the guest had been on drives before and what they had not seen was the cheetah and seeing cheetah was going to make their dream come true in Africa
The afternoon was really active with a lot of general game in the plains as it was really sunny and all the animals where coming to the open after spending few days in the hiding after a lot of rains .First to see was the young jackal looking for insects trotting on the road ,close to the Homestead there was 4 Buffalo bulls enjoying the green grass & we were also able to see the breeding herd of elephants and a journey of giraffe
On our way home we came across a coalition of 3 cheetah brothers on blue crane link coming on an easterly direction towards the road when we spotted them they were about 200 meters from the road we waited for them until they were on the road .They started walking along the road towards the homestead and they were really curious about spotting the game as they always used every elevated spot to try and scan the whole area
To our surprise one of the males sniffed the buffalo droppings. First we thought it was trying to mark the territory, to our surprise it started eating the buffalo droppings for a moment. It was really surprising as cheetahs eating fecal matter is not a common occurrence.
Sam
