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A morning in a Kalahari Leopard’s life

10,000 Birds

This 15,000 sq mi Kalahari desert reserve straddles the South African and Botswana border regions and was created when two national parks were merged – these being South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park. Along the way she picked up two thorns in her back left footpad.

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Big Cat Week!

4 The Love Of Animals

Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. A blood feud erupts when scavenging hyenas move in on the kill. Beyond the blood and gore lies a stark reality: Big cats kill to live and live to kill.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

She talked about what we might see after we remounted the safari truck, which we had just driven out of the campground at the southern end of Kgalgadi Transfrontier Park, where we were staying in the South African camp, just across from the Botswana camp. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. But they don’t live in North America.

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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.