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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The park was created as much to protect the local communities from marauding elephants with a hatred of dangerous humans and a lack of interest in the differences between nations as it was to protect the elephants. The park did have a pack of African Wild Dogs, or Painted Wolves, the species I had gone to Africa to see.

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Days of Guano

10,000 Birds

Temperamentally they resemble a small white skua, and nothing gets their blood boiling so much as the idea that you might stray within a few miles of their breeding territory. Notice the correct Farallon Fashion accentuated by contributions from angry gulls. It’s a hot sunny day. Why wouldn’t you wear wet weather gear and helmets?

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