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Everyone knows a group of lions is called a pride and a bunch of elephants hanging out together is referred to as a herd. But what do you yell out when you see more than one cheetah? How about two or more leopards? Three hippos? Four hyenas?
Have you ever been to the Peabody Hotel in Memphis? It’s famous for the resident flock of ducks that march through its lobby twice a day. Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park has Africa’s super-sized answer to the Peabody’s ducks.
Most people go on their first safari because, understandably, they want to see Africa’s famous big animals — lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and the like.
Pretty much everyone has heard of the Great Migration. And most people have a pretty decent sense of what it is — a bunch of wildebeest and zebra running across the plains trying to not get eaten, right? Well, yes, but it’s so much more than that.
The hyena may be Africa’s most maligned and misunderstood species. Widely loathed as mangy, vicious, cowardly, and even evil, its ability to arouse our collective contempt is unmatched among Africa’s mammals.
Ever wondered what it’s like to trek to see the gorillas of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest? Though the experience can’t really be captured in a single short video, the footage below will give you a decent of sense of what the experience is like.
This dramatic image of a male lion leaping from a tree with a dismembered impala clutched in his jaws was taken last month at Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve by safari guide Pravir Patel.
It’s easy to get depressed these days if you care about the natural world and pay attention to the news coming out of Africa. The continent’s wildlife is being slaughtered at an unprecedented rate to meet the ever-growing demand for illegal wildlife products in Asia’s markets.
Rex Masupe, who is a guide at Abu Camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, was recently called to this grisly scene by two camp assistants who stumbled upon it while out searching for firewood. The two male kudus had become locked together while battling for dominance and the right control a harem of females.
There are botanical gardens and then there is Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Nestled beneath the imposing eastern flank of Table Mountain, its impossibly dramatic setting is just one of the reasons why many in the know have long considered Kirstenbosch to be the world’s most beautiful botanical garden.
Need a little something to brighten up your Monday? Then check out this live 24-hour webcam trained on these five cheetah cubs at South Africa’s Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC). The cubs were born in on April 17th to a cheetah named Salome in the center’s maternity ward.
