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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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Babita Tours has many years of experience organizing tailor-made wildlife tours for private groups in this wonderful country. You are certain to see Greater One-horned Rhinoceros , Water Buffalo and Hog Deer , and with a bit of luck Smooth-coated Otters. The post Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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Snow Leopard hunt by Adam Riley (INDRI Ultimate Wildlife Tours)

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Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Our Snow Leopard sat, quite Cheetah-like, before stalking off and once again rolling in the gravel, apparently an indication of the desire to mask its scent before a hunt.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. of its hunts are successful. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Back to birds. Lucky him, right?

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” Even more strangely, the U.S. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter.

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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: A Book Review

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Nothing wets the appetite for a birding trip like a map with a Blue-banded Pitta posed in the middle and a Rhinoceros Hornbill flying across the edge! Quentin won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (junior section) with the first-ever photograph of a nesting Chest-nutheaded Thrush.

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Animals of Kruger National Park: A Book Review

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And one that is easy to use, because, let’s face it, you want to spend most of your time looking at wildlife, not searching for information. The Big Five–Lion, Leopard, African Buffalo, African Elephant and Rhinoceros–were historically the main mammal attraction of Kruger.

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