10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guide’s index, and the last. It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold.

Fur 183

Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. Lions are most easily found in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Buffalo 201

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Placing one hand over his pate, as he was wont to do, and pointing at the others as he spoke with the finger of his other hand, Isaac stated in his semi-elvian voice, colored with the British Colonial Accent he grew into as the son of a South African Brit exiled to Kenya, the following: “Eric, shut up. Your argument is invalid.

Humane 165

Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? In subsequent experiments, Heinrich confirmed that group interests could drive what an individual raven decides to do.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. A Sharpe’s Longclaw photographed on the Kinangop Plateau, Kenya by Adam Riley.

Endangered Species 188

Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 188