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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

4 The Love Of Animals

It is home to some of the most concentrated and diverse shark populations in the world, including species with a reputation for attacking people, such as great white, bull, tiger, black tip, ragged tooth and dusky sharks. Does exposed human skin, like bare feet, bring them in for the kill? Time of day. Panic and fear.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

A bull, cow and calf Cape or African Buffalo in Kruger National Park by Adam Riley (note the attendant Red-billed Oxpeckers!) They are one of the four existing species in the genus Panthera , and with males weighing in at up to 550lbs are second in size only to Tigers.

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Shadows of Africa

10,000 Birds

Mosetlha Bush Camp guide awaits us by the open Land Rover and with a loaded rifle in front of the steering wheel, we continue into the bush (oddly, while observing lions and tigers in India, not a single rifle was in sight). We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf.

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