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My first week here has been a steep learning curve. It has been so different to what I have experienced in my first three months in South Africa at Karongwe Private Game Reserve. Last week I woke up to a house full of twenty-something people at 4:30am to go out on a research drive, this
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By: Victoria (Tori) Gray This week we were introduced to the two stunning Western Barn Owls at the lodge, Fat Owlbert and Muhammad Owli, and the two beautiful Spotted Eagle Owls on the conservancy, Kludd and Igor. Over the last few months since being in South Africa, I’ve come to love and appreciate birds far
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It’s Monday morning. The alarm rudely wakes you from your sleep. You drag yourself from bed. You mentally prepare for the daily grind of school, or work. You question if this is all there is. You wonder how you’ve somehow found yourself in the nine-to-five spiral. Work. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. This is not what you
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After his first attempt it was try two for Shishi verse the big bad world, this time we change the plan slightly we decided that for the first night we should feed him before we released him and not place food on the hatch so as not to attract unwanted attention form the wild Bush
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An Aardvark – one of the closest living relatives to the African elephant! Honey Badger – World’s Most Fearless Creature A Leopard – has the widest range of habitats of all the big cats. A White Tailed Mongoose – the largest species of mongoose. Young Vervet Monkeys are very playful They also groom each
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After a great deal of hard work and some fun along the way our first big project of building the bird enclosure is finished and is awaiting its first house guests. It presented some massive challenges such as how to get a roof on an enclosure when your working at least 4 meters in the