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Hippos are among the most fearsome creatures in all of Africa, seriously. The only animals more deadly than hippos in Africa are the human and the mosquito, hippos are responsible for more deaths annually than crocodiles. Part of the reason for this is that they are nocturnal and when they emerge from the water at [...]
Well biking to work isn’t all fun and games. Just check out this daily ride for some wildlife rangers at South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Everyday they take tourists on a cycling trip in the bush. Notice those shotguns. Our guide had only had to use his once, and in that case it was just [...]
The decision to purchase the South African wild card park pass was an easy one. We were coming to Africa and we were told that within South Africa we could do our own game drives and safaris and not pay for an expensive tour or guide. With a little more research we realized that this [...]
After our elephant experience in Kruger safety around animals has been on my mind, so when I saw an article in a nature magazine entitled “animal safety” I flipped to the article. The advice was basically this: hippo, rhino, elephant, lion- stay away and if you can’t stay away get away quickly and quietly before [...]
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