Ngaire, that's a fantastic report & photos from King's Camp! Patrick found the Rockfig leopardess & her cub for us (which Anne described above) & we were in absolute heaven taking photos of her & her playful cub. (Animal Planet had a RR nearby in the area.) Sounds like lots of lion activity still going on there. There was 1 elephant carcass when we were there, several days old, so smelled too dreadful for rangers to take us to it. These photos are terrific.

Great thread, Fred!
Already mentioned above, my animal favs were definitely the leopardess & her cub at King's CAmp & the hyena cubs at Madwike romping with the babysitter. So I'll toss in a couple of "misc. favs":

1) The fly-by over Madikwe's airstrip in our 12 seater Caravan charter plane (Though it was a white knuckle experience for moi, thank you Grant for talking the pilots into doing this :) I'm a new woman after that exhilarating experience!)

2) The "late night stand up comedy performance" of the Chef at King's Camp. You wouldn't believe how funny this character is. His stories about his "battles with the baboons" sneaking into his kitchen were beyond funny in addition to his "kill of the elusive cricket" in his suite one night were award-winning. Great personality who kept us up late laughing & roaring.