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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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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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advisory board, the “ Wildlife Protection Board ,” has been created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family 2. A newly created U.S. But I digress.

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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. One of the spiral-horned antelope (the antelopes are a huge family and much sub-divided) it resembles an intermediate between a Lesser Kudu and a Bushbuck , albeit with much longer and more attractive hair on the males.

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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. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses. . •

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Madikwe; Paradise Restored

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It’s the only park I have ever been to that not only have I seen all five of the Big Five (Lion, Leopard, African Buffalo, White Rhino and African Elephant) in, but seen them all on the same day. Madikwe has perhaps too many elephants. A Shaft-tailed Whydah, a member of a small African family of cuckoo-finches.