Mahlatini Travel Blog

Sightings of Spotted hyena in Lion Sands are quite rare due to their low numbers, therefore any sighting of these magnificent animals is a special one – but recently our guests were treated to the most incredible sighting!We had located a den site about a month ago after following an adult female hyena traveling down one of the roads at a rapid pace. She followed the road to the Hilda’s Rock area and then moved into the vegetation. There we found an incredible den site under a large rock, there were three cubs at the site, two cubs of approximately two months of age and one cub was younger than a month! We have had several awesome sightings of these cubs playing around the den site but last week we noticed that there were now five cubs! Two tiny cubs have now joined the clan and can be seen peering out of the dens site, still a little nervous to venture out.

For more information and pictures visit the official Lion Sands website.

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