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Tswalu Day 4: the Sociable Weaver Nest

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Day 3 at Tswalu: Springtime

Three highlights stood out amongst an outstandi ...read more

Looking for sea monsters

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Day 2 at Tswalu: under the Korannaberg

We had fresh tracks of the elusive Pangolin, an ...read more

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Sunset Kill

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Right Place Right Time

I was up in the mountains in the north of Kwand ...read more

Lions Chase Cheetah

About 45 minutes into our game drive, we came a ...read more

Leopard Surprise

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The Lighter Side of Guiding continues...

My previous story about our time at Ngala, part ...read more

The Lighter Side of Guiding

Reading all these great stories here on Ranger ...read more

Lions, Bikes and Cellphones

As a game ranger, I’m lucky to be able to ...read more

Sardine Run!

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Death of a Landrover

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Serengeti teeming with game

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The Incredible Wildebeest Crossing

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Wild dogs, hyenas and a leopard together

Late one spring afternoon on game drive we were ...read more

Building characters with sandbags

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The Damara Molerat

The Damara Molerat - what a creature! I have se ...read more

Mark Hankin
Company: Kwandwe
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Common Fiscal catches mouse

The great thing about working and living in the ...read more

Three Narina Trogons and a Baillons Crake

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Narina Trogon and Knysna Turaco in same tree

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The elusive leopard

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Being stalked by an elephant

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Night of the lions

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Bullfrogs, badgers and brown hyenas

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Bot ...read more

Cheetah In The Rain

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Shark diving off the Cape Coast

PELAGIC SHARK TRIPS

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Civilisation..De-Evolved - Rhino Poaching

RHINO POACHING!!......... the two words have th ...read more

Murder Most Foul

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Blondes, Brunettes and Land Cruisers

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A day in the life of a Kalahari guide

I wrote this some time ago and even to date I f ...read more

A tribute to an amazing Tracker

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Let it rain! Rain dance!

It was an extremely difficult month to begin wi ...read more

Quarrelling with the elements

The wind had been howling throughout the ...read more

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Getting scolded in front of a leopard

Head tracker Richard Siwela and I were guiding ...read more

Blood in the air and the silent treatment

There was always a certain joy I got driving at ...read more

The bull killer

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Arriving at the gates of hell

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Ian Lombard
Company: Kwandwe
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Marco  Tonoli
Company: Tswalu
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Ground Pangolin - A Rare Find

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Tswalu Kalahari Reserve - An Introduction

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The deadly chameleon

I had just started guiding at a private lodge i ...read more

Birding Part 5: Bird song

Bird Song

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Birding Part 4: The heralds of Spring

The Heralds of the spring

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Birding part 3: Guiding

Guiding. With birds.

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Leopard: the team hunter

Leopards surprise you every day.

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Ive seen a Ghost

With reference to my previous post "The Ghost o ...read more

A Grey Duikers Breakfast

I had once read that Grey Duikers have an appet ...read more

Excuse Me, Coming Through!

What do you get if you have a couch, laid out b ...read more

Graeme  Mann
Company: Kwandwe
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Crossing the lion: the longest hour of my life

I was about a year into my guiding and I probab ...read more

In the face of a leopard charge there is no I in TEAM

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Marius Coetzee
Company: Oryx
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Tsaro Power

Living the Dream: My Life as a Professi ...read more

The 8th Wonder of the World

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Incredible Leopard Photography

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Summer at Shamwari

Dear Safari Friends

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October at Shamwari

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Birding in Southern Tanzania

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A day walking roads as a trainee ranger

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Mysterys son and the kids

It was mid July in the Pilanesberg and the morn ...read more

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Africa alive, a personal account.

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Mongoose last stand

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Back from leave

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Game Drives at Nkaya

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Tom  Imrie
Company: Londolozi
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Duikers have got balls

Male Common Duikers have big testicles. I know ...read more

Zoological gardens

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Spring is like a perhaps hand

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A September afternoon at Nebrownii waterhole, Etosha

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Cape pelagic birding tour

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Lions mating

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As white as snow!

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New Rain - New Life

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A TRIBUTE TO OUR WILDLIFE HEROES

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Shorty goes big

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Battle at Londolozi

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Mark Deakin
Company: Phinda
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Luke Fryer
Company: Phinda
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