Africa Experiments Hunting Killing 
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Africa has more than its fair share of storks, with 8 of the world’s 19 species gracing the continent. Marabous have also learnt another trick, and that is to follow vultures and scavenge off the remains of Lion and other large predator kills. The Saddle-billed Stork has a similar Africa-wide distribution as the Marabou.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
Only in Africa is it really easy to see a big variety. Lion – much easier to see than an Aardvark In contrast to East Africa, encounters with mammals while out birding in Europe are relatively few. I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
I’m sure you’ve all heard of Africa’s famous Big Five , but do you know there is also an equally fascinating Little Five ? Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
So, it sometimes comes to South Africa to relax and enjoy relative anonymity. Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. Among the findings: “Canary traders, mostly with primary education level (63.25%) and Muslim (97.5%), were on average 44 years old and an average experience of 27 years.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
It’s six weeks to the day till I go to Africa, and of late conversations about the subject have taken a reliable and predictable detour. ” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves. This lake is close to the cave.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2011
This is not a surprise as both pastimes tap into my primeval desire to hunt. In many cases, myself included, the desire manifests itself in less apparent ways than going out and killing something for the trophy wall. I don’t need to kill something to feel the rush of the hunt. It consumes me. It consumes me.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same. Hyena crazy.
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