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The Curiously Crowned Kudu

On the evening game drive last night we came across a strange sight. A young kudu bull with one spiral horn more back swept than the other, it was feeding on a thicket, but when it emerged we could...

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Dung beetles / Scarab Beetles

  Dung beetles are an extremely important part of the African bush, and also in most other countries where wildlife occurs, they are found on all continents except for Antarctica (Australia had some...

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Elephant Mud Bath

This morning we headed out on drive in search of the elephants, which were left in the Middelpad area last night. My tracker, Jeffery, saw the tracks and we started to follow them. About 40 minutes...

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Mud

It’s the rainy season currently at Kapama and with rain comes lots and lots of mud, (great for the wildlife, but interesting for the rangers and their vehicles.) Animals like rhino, buffalo, and...

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Braving the showers

1 December 2009 Even in spite of the 40+mm of rain that came hurtling down during the night I had a full vehicle of guests who decided to don their ponchos and brave the weather this morning! We...

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Rain, rain and more rain!!!

This morning we woke up to a network of rivers, the roads had disappeared. I was quite surprised that there weren't fish swimming down the roads that is how much rain we had during the night.  The...

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