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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

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The history of Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa is a slightly unusual one. But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. And elephants are always overwhelming anyway. Tembe Elephant Park is a mosaic of savannah and forest.

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The Fallen Yellowlegs

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I say unceremoniously – but I am using the human metric by which we decide what makes noise and what doesn’t. Did the Black-bellied Whistling Duck represent his family, “showing face” as we say here in the Caribbean? Without so much as a splash, it slipped into the water. A moment of silence for the departed.

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A couple of facts :D

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Elephants can communicate via vibrations, they have these fatty pads within their feet which is also what allows them to walk quietly, these pads can easily pick up vibrations. " • Baluga Whales can also mimic voices, whilst on the topic of mimicry a Baluga often toyed with humans by saying "Out!"

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Nyala, Southern Africa’s Stunning Antelope

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By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox. In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans.

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#CeciltheLion is a dangerous direction for conservation

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Shot an elephant. Is it fair her life was destroyed because hers was public and mine was among family a decade ago? But we mustn’t let go of our humanity or forget the humanity of the people we disagree with. The mobs that once enforced “justice” in the streets now do so online. Shoving a cat in a bin.

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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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The Battle of Stalingrad, or Crows vs. People

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Just imagine a family excursion to Yellowstone to photograph grazing herds of elephants – equally wrong. And the only birds known to actually attack humans, not just try to scare them with screeching and low flights, but to establish a full contact in protection of their offspring, were owls. Something was very wrong.