Giraffe – one species or more?
An essential requirement for a species is that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring. Clearly if they cannot do so, they become extinct….
Rare species
The future of elephants is in our hands
Today is World Wildlife Day. Each year the United Nations chooses a different theme to highlight the threat to wildlife on our planet and raise…
A Learning Curve
One morning, while we were out in the Serengeti Plains looking for cheetah, we came across a solitary female who looked hungry and appeared…
Murchison’s Falls National Park, Uganda
Uganda is not a big cat destination, and becomes a place we often visit to track the rare mountain gorillas. This is a fantastic…
A Small Cat Hunts
The Land-cruiser stopped so that we could watch a group of chattering banded mongooses rushing across the track.
Every now and then one would stand on his hind legs and look around in case there was danger. While there one of us noticed a water monitor lizard lounging over an acacia branch above us. He seemed to have an ideal spot to enjoy a cool breeze, and we wouldn’t have noticed him if we hadn’t been parked underneath him. Then something flashed past the front of the Land-Cruiser, and a second later we heard the squealing of a distraught mongoose.
An Array of Unusual Critters
A safari is always exciting and the sightings that you have are always amazing, but once in a while you have a safari where…
Rare Daytime Encounter with A Striped Hyaena.
We left camp at dawn for an early morning game drive in an area of woodland near the edge of the vast Serengeti Plain….
Special species – lesser kudu
The last great wilderness areas in warm climes are in Africa. Most of these areas have only been dramatically effected by man in the…
Our first day in Namibia
We had left the lush green swamps of the Okavango Delta a day before. One of the last activities we did there was riding…
Our First Day at Vumbura in the Okavango Delta
The African Wild Dog is one of Africa’s rarest large predators. Although they may look a little thin and sometimes mangy, I have a…
Young cheetahs hunting
A contrast to the scenario from my previous post was to happen a few days later when we found two hungry sub-adult cheetah attempting…
Cat on the roof
As we sat watching her, one of her young cubs approached us in a manner that indicated he had an unusual fascination with the vehicle.