I heard the clashing of horns near my camp, took my Nikon and slowly stalked the noise. There was an intruder nyala bull and he had just been pushed off by the bull which was evidently the daddy of the family. This daddy heard my stealthy approach and came to investigate - visibly immensly agitated. That is nyala - any other antelope snort of bark to warn te family and run off. I took the photo and retreated slowly, watching him all the time. Nyala bulls in defense of the family are very dangerous. More humans are killed by unharmed nyala bulls than any other antelope. Look at those arrow-sharp horns. Another time we came round a bend in the narrow bush track and saw these two in a clearing, facing off in their way of posturing - like nyala also do most of the time.

In In this photo you see a 4x4 muley buck in the upper left I spotted three days ago while scouting. You will note extremely high antlers while with is well under size. Not very visible is a traditional 3x3 buck with a solid 26"+ spread laying under a tree to the lower right. Both bucks are about the same body weight. If you were hunting & came upon this duo which would you select? I believe I would go for the traditional 3x3. Hmm.

I simply had to copy and paste this from my son's post in the blog: "From there we walked to find water, only to find it occupied by a big elephant bull. We sat on the banks watching him with the wind blowing our scent directly toward him. He was not bothered and after about 20 minutes he calmly walked past us, not 12 yards from where we were sitting. Unbelievable experience." "Going to collect water [the next] day showed very clear evidence that a male leopard visited the water hole during the night as well" :