Kapama Private Game Reserve: Two new cheetahs released into the reserve

The Kapama Private Game Reserve, situated just out of Hoedspruit in South Africa's Limpop province, recently introduced two new cheetahs into the reserve. The animals, a mother and her daughter, are originally from Mountain Zebra National Park in the Eastern Cape, but spend the last year already at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC), which is located within the Kapama Private Game Reserve.
The Kapama Private Game Reserve spreads from the R40 on the west to the Thornybush boundary to the east, and from the Eastgate Airport road to the north to the Klaserie Dam on the south.
The reserve's 13000 hectares are home to 42 mammal species including the famed 'Big 5' - lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, and approximately 350 bird species.

A very close elephant encounter in the Kapama Private Game Reserve (South Africa)

Does one remember the "never leave apples in your tent in the Okavango Delta or an elephant might come and take them"-video I posted on this blog about a year ago? Anyway, I just found the video footage below, in which an elephant is coming super close to a safari vehicle filled with (elderly) tourist. And by "super close" I mean close, really close! Nothing happened, no one was injured, but I reckon almost everyone in the safari vehicle needed to change pants after the encounter with the elephant... hectic times! At least for the tourists in the vehicle!



The video was filmed in the Kapama Private Game Reserve, a 13000 hectares reserve in South Africa's Limpopo Province.