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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Mosethla 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). They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. Sniffing us. A flock of Red-billed Oxpeckers is flying above.

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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). They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. Sniffing us. A flock of Red-billed Oxpeckers is flying above.

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