A leopard takes a dive and goes fishing for lunch in Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa.
Category Archives: Animal Encounters
Incredible encounter: Mongoose versus snake
A yellow mongoose and a mole snake provide a great sighting as they face off in the Kgalagadi.
Extraordinary sighting: One-eyed leopard
Despite a handicap of having only one eye, this leopard is still able to hunt and provides an incredible sighting for safari goers.
Spotting the underdog: Facts about spotted hyenas
Spotted hyenas are curious, inquisitive and fiercely intelligent. Here are a few intriguing facts about these complex creatures.
Cape foxes defend kits from honey badger
An incredible sighting as a Cape fox family deals with an unwanted guest in the form of a honey badger looking for a meal.
Photoseries: Playful black-backed jackal pups
A visitor to Rietvlei Nature Reserve in South Africa was treated to a fantastic sighting of black-backed jackal pups playing.
The feisty and courageous mole-rat
Feisty and courageous, with a hint of cuteness to top it off, is the perfect description of this little burrowing rodent.
Adorably naughty leopard cubs
A leopard mother has her paws full as her two adorably naughty cubs prefer to explore the bush rather than hide away in their den.
Newborn giraffe: Defying the odds
It was an honour to watch this giraffe mother expertly care for her newborn in his first moments, magical to watch as he finally stood and heartwarming to witness his first steps.
Winter wildlife highlights in the Karoo
During the long winter months in the Karoo, it is always a thrill to see nocturnal animals out and about in the daylight hours foraging.
Photoseries: Adorable elephant calf
A regular visitor to the Kruger National Park comes across an incredibly cute and small elephant calf with its mother.
Video: A special close encounter with elephants in Tanzania’s Ruaha
Meeting an elephant in Ruaha on foot, ‘eye to eye’ so to speak, is very different from watching them from the safety of a car. One can feel the power within their massive bodies, while they soft-footedly, and without making a sound, move past you.
Intriguing facts about the dwarf mongoose
Despite their diminutive stature, dwarf mongoose are a fascinating species with a range of intriguing habits and adaptations to their name.
Adorable sighting: Lion cubs
A ranger shares his thoughts on seeing a lioness with her five young cubs and how they have provided some great sightings for him and his guests.
Kruger’s roaming lions
“Never a dull moment in the bush” is something my husband and I tell each other all the time. Well, that is certainly true for the events of a few weekends ago when a male lion got out of our stunning Kruger National Park!
Video: Opportunistic hyenas steal kill from wild dog
A fantastic sighting as two spotted hyenas steal a kill from a wild dog in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.
Epic sighting: Python kills guineafowl
An African rock python eating a helmeted guineafowl provides a great sighting for guests in a houseboat on the Chobe River in Botswana.
Video: There is an elephant in the driveway!
An elephant tucks into some juicy vegetation in a residential garden in the Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Video: 5 Things you didn’t know about black-maned lions
The lions in the Kalahari are known as black-maned lions, and here are five things you didn’t know about black-maned lions.
Leopards: Bitter sweet moments
A day out in the bush in the Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa offers three unique sightings of leopards.
Cunning honey badger snatches eagle chick
A cunning honey badger takes a chance on a martial eagle’s nest in the Kgalagadi Transfontier Park in South Africa.
The fantastic sighting of the ‘meerkat’ leopard
A leopard presents some stunning photographic opportunities with her agility while looking for her cub in the tall grasses of the Serengeti.
Elephant treated at lodge in Zambia
On Saturday 18 August, a joint conservation task force came to the aid of an elephant in distress in Zambia.
An encounter with a serval and her kitten
The stories of Maasai Mara are not simply woven around the Big 5, but of coming up close and personal with never-before-seen experiences. It is about simply marvelling at the effortless way a million stories bursts into life in that single frame.
Why South Luangwa is a great place to see wild dogs
With population numbers increasing, the exhilarating experience of seeing wild dogs is becoming a staple of South Luangwa game drives.
Wild dog conservation success in KwaZulu-Natal
In an exciting and massive win for conservation, a successful denning in Manyoni Private Game Reserve results in three new wild dog puppies.
Elephants trample and kill two Tanzanians
Two Tanzanians have been trampled to death by elephants in the north of the country, police said on Monday.
Videos: Dramatic sighting as lion pride takes down impala in camp
Late on a Sunday night, a pride of lions chased, took down and devoured an impala inside our camp – an incredible sighting to say the least!
Deceptive creatures: Survival in the wild
For billions of years, animals have learnt the skills required to survive and escape predation, adapting to their environment and learning a few tricks along the way.
Hippo kills tourist, injures another
A hippo has attacked and killed a Taiwanese tourist, and injured another, at a wildlife resort on Lake Naivasha in Kenya.
Where have all the chameleons gone?
So what really has happened to all the chameleons in South Africa? We look at several factors which can affect their populations.
Video: A tree climbing lesson for four lion cubs
A great sighting as a lioness and four cubs spend some time exploring a shepherd’s tree in the Waterberg, South Africa.
Video: Crocodile relocated from Victoria Falls Bridge
The famous Victoria Falls Bridge, situated between Zimbabwe and Zambia, had an unexpected visitor on Sunday in the form of a 2-metre-long crocodile.
13 Wild dog pups born at Kalahari reserve
Tswalu Kalahari has welcomed a litter of no less than 13 African wild dog pups to their pack!
NEWS WRAP: Tenth black rhino dies after translocation + elephant calf rescued from muddy pit
In this week’s news wrap a tenth black rhino has died in Kenya after a botched translocation; a young elephant in Zimbabwe has been rescued after becoming stuck in the mud; Virunga National Park has welcomed the good news that two new mountain gorillas have been born in the park; a field ranger has been shot and killed in the Kruger National Park in a poaching incident; an alleged poacher in the Kruger was arrested shortly after being trampled by elephants; the De Beers Group has begun to transport 200 elephants from South Africa to Mozambique; and Hong Kong customs have seized 7,100 kg of suspected pangolin scales.
Video: Young Zim elephant rescued after becoming stuck in the mud
A young elephant has been rescued from a muddy pit in Zimbabwe after rescuers used a bulldozer to help with the rescue operation.
Wild baby animals: Why are they so adorable?
There’s not a soul that can resist the cuteness of baby animals. The fluff, the wobbly legs, and the playfulness is undeniably adorable!
Zuri and Amaka: The cheetah brothers of Mugie
Although cheetahs are solitary creatures, males (often brothers) form coalitions and defend their territory together. Amaka, and his brother Zuri, have done just this, and at six years old have spent their lives as companions and compatriots.
Video: The new lion cubs of the Zebenine pride
After weeks of waiting, the two lion cubs, a male and a female, from the Zebanine pride have finally made their first appearance.
NEWS WRAP: Illegal ivory openly sold in Europe + elephant tramples handler
In this week’s news wrap a study has revealed how illegal ivory is being openly sold across Europe; a 40-year-old man has died after being trampled by a domesticated elephant at an elephant sanctuary in Victoria Falls; a Kruger lioness who was treated by vets for a deep snare wound around her waist a month ago has recently been sighted again; at least three alleged poachers were killed by a pride of lions in Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa; seven baboons have been killed after hunting permits were issued to two Cape wine farms; and humpback whale monitoring has returned to the KwaZulu-Natal coast after a 15-year absence.
A guide to the mountain gorilla families of Uganda
Find out more about Uganda’s habituated mountain gorilla families that live in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
Lions and hyenas: Eternal enemies
Chad Cocking and his team recently had a stunning sighting of lions restoring order and claiming their rank from the hyena clans, proving just how formidable they can be.
Humpback whale monitoring returns to KZN coast after 15-year absence
Excitement builds as the East Coast Humpback Whale Survey begins again in Cape Vidal, iSimangaliso after a near two-decade absence.
The leopard – master hunter
Normally seen in a distant tree canopy or as a fleeting glimpse while it runs away, leopards are shy and elusive animals.
Do hippos really sweat blood?
Hippos have unique, heat-sensitive skin, and when trying to stay cool they secrete “blood sweat”, which is neither blood nor sweat.
Video: Battle of the boars
A field guide in the Kruger National Park witnesses an epic battle between to warthog boars.
