Today we went down to the south, and brought along a few trackers, to try and find the giraffe that hang out down there. We didn't have any luck finding the giraffe, but did see a porcupine close up, which was really cool. We then came back, had some lunch, and went off to find Sabella. We are supposed to track her every day now, because she either has her cubs, or will give birth to them soon, so we need to monitor her behavior, and her feeding patterns. When we came up to her, she was eating a freshly killed female Kudu, but then shortly came off her kill and laid in the dried out river bed. After watching her for some time, we went to the cheetah boma, to do our daily couple of laps around the boma, to try and habituate the 4 cheetah that are inside. While we were driving around the boma, I spotted the lone male cheetah that is brothers with two of the males inside the boma. A week ago, we trapped this same male inside a cage by using piece of zebra meat, but he busted out of the trap door with his head, while we were trying to transport it into the boma. I'm just glad to see that it wasn't hurt from that episode. Now we are back at the living quarters, about to make some food for dinner. Today was a great day!
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