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Cute of the Day: All Legs Baby!

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The duo will join the other animals on the Serengeti Plain in a few months. It is common for other members of the giraffe family to become involved with the care of newborns, and this baby will be joined by another new baby giraffe before summer. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on April 23, 2010.

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Keep River National Park

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per person per night and discounts for families. We observed Zebra Finch, Long-tailed Finch, Masked Finch, Double-barred Finch, Star Finch and the rare Gouldian Finch … an uncommon red-headed male no less! It obviously had a bit of a bone fetish and had collected bones from both bird and animal. Aboriginal cave drawings.

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus. A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. The others follow, some dozen animals in all. Driving slowly behind them… The guide knows his animals.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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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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Bush telly in Australia

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We also go to bed when the birds and animals do and arise with them the following day. It was very popular with the Rufous-throated Honeyeaters , Yellow-tinted Honeyeaters , Banded Honeyeaters , White-winged Trillers , Little Friarbird s and the Zebra Finch. Zebra Finch. Branch added for the Honeyeaters.

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

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Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Shadows of Africa

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The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus. A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. The others follow, some dozen animals in all. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good!

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