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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

10,000 Birds

It is a good place for South African birders, as several species are found here and nowhere else in South Africa, and it holds a small number of endemics that it shares with the Mozambique lowlands. In the mornings, and I use that term loosely, we would set out to monitor the Lions. And elephants are always overwhelming anyway.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! Although, it is not for the first time when inter-species adoption occurs, but every single case is getting more and more exciting – animals can not only be friends, but parents and brothers as well.

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Road Eagles

10,000 Birds

By “super carnivore” I mean top-of-the-food-chain kinds of critters, like lions or wolf packs, etc., This make sense in a certain way; a species of carnivores that over-concentrated in space would go extinct. A little bit of prudential restraint is good for the species as a whole, and thus it evolved.

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