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A couple of facts :D

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How big cats hunt, big cats such as tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards and cougars though strong and fast have poor stamina, as ambush predators they'll want a quick kill as to minimize injury, so they'll use their powerful arms to hold prey down and bite them in the neck, quick and easy compared to the canines. •

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The Nemesis Cat Defeated!

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Obviously we had interrupted a kill, but the Leopard didn’t reappear and we had to move on (to find the rest of Fala’s pack). Leopard camels in Madikwe. It was, I don’t know, maybe twenty minutes after we left Fala dying in the bush ( as told last week , go read! I’ll wait). Still, I finally had my Leopard.

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Into an Uncertain Future

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The crucial factor limiting the maximum baggage is the transport of the entire German population to their new home in the central Saharan desert regions of southern Algeria, Mali and Niger by camel. May 2013 was the wettest May on record, like… ever, with extreme flood events that even killed people.

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Week Fourteen: The Center of Australia, and Sydney Part #1

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This Wedge-tailed Eagle was sitting along side one of the roads, eyeing a small road killed Kangaroo. After driving thru as much desert as we have lately, I was still absolutely shocked, when Jeanne cried out, “CAMELS”!! Sure enough, and group of 8 camels was not to far off the road, about 35 kilometers from Yulara.

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Africa’s endangered species

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An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. This plain used to be little affected by humans, being grazed by just a few cattle, goats and camels. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.