10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. We also saw a leopard, but it was the A to Z that sticks in the mind. I wonder how they get on with the wild cats? Only in Africa is it really easy to see a big variety.

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Fur Otters Bulgaria Estonia 187

Reddit Animals

AUGUST 30, 2023

• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses. . •

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Snow Leopard Leopards Tigers Alligators 40

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The big cats of the world need our help. The second annual Big Cat Week will air this Sunday, December 11th through December 17th on Nat Geo WILD. For seven nights, Big Cat Week will showcase visually stunning and powerfully resonant stories of nature’s fiercest felines and the people working to save these majestic cats.

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Cats Leopards Lions Tigers 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 204

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Animals of Kruger National Park by Keith Barnes is the animal guide I wish I had when I visited South Africa. It would have been useful to have more information about the rest camps that define each route, but I understand that there is a fine line (maybe even a broad one) between writing an animal guide and a tourist guide.

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Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

This is not to say, however, that birders on holiday are, should they choose to travel with family, friends or other assorted loved ones, resigned to seeing nothing, or even nothing except the common stuff. I was thus able to pick an off-the-shelf ecotourism route and, having selected a company, customise it to my family’s needs.

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Birds Bats Elephants Family 184