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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Image taken in Uganda’s Budongo Forest by Adam Riley Buffalo The big – to anyone familiar with the wilds of Africa, the Cape or African Buffalo is the most fearsome of all animals.

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. The others follow, some dozen animals in all. Their presence indicates large mammals nearby – and only a few meters away, one Southern White Rhinoceros mother with a calf disappears among the bushes.

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Animals of Kruger National Park: A Book Review

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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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Shadows of Africa

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A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. The others follow, some dozen animals in all. Their presence indicates large mammals nearby – and only a few meters away, one Southern White Rhinoceros mother with a calf disappears among the bushes.

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