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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. What are your best wildlife moments? And what are your wildlife dreams?

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Kinabatangan – Borneo’s Mighty River

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The lodge is unusual in having a raised walkway behind the lodge, allowing those of us keen to bird or watch wildlife when most normal people are resting in the middle of the day. A Rhinoceros Hornbill ! Orangutans never get old. We stayed at the Sukau River Lodge, which is one of the nicest lodges on the river. What a bird!

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Is my Rhino Still Alive?

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We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came, a young – although nine years old White Rhinoceros. Cover photo: White Rhinoceros, Wikimedia Commons.

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