Animal stories

Lion vs Buffalo Sepia Series, Seyms Brugger

Lions versus buffalo in the Okavango Delta

22 April 2013 | Getaway

In the far northern region of the Okavango Delta lies a place of timeless battles where lion and buffalo struggle daily for life and death. This is Duba Plains - made famous by Derick & Beverly Joubert for films such as The Last Lions. BY Seyms Bruggers

How to clean a cobra cage

19 April 2013 | Getaway

Clean the enclosure? Sure. The writhing mass of cobras isn't an issue.

A male blackbird starts the breeding season with a simple tune and ends it with a symphony of innovated song.

Birdsong – nature’s music

12 April 2013 | Don Pinnock

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Because it’s been with us since the beginning of time, bird music always seems somehow right except, perhaps, when it comes from a hadeda. But that could be our fault.

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New species of “panda bat” discovered in South Sudan

11 April 2013 | Kati Auld

A bat has recently been discovered in South Sudan which is not only a new species, but a new genus.

Kariega celebrates birth of rhino calf

28 March 2013 | Claire Allison

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In March 2012, three white rhinos were brutally poached on Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape. Miraculously one of the rhinos survived and, as fate would have it, almost exactly one year later, Kariega welcomes a new rhino calf to their game reserve.

Gemsbok have developed a way of fooling their bodies into believing it’s cooler than it actually is.

Surviving desert extremes in the Kalahari

18 March 2013 | Hannelie Van As

Deserts aren’t for sissies. Listening to someone who grew up in the Kalahari talk about how animals and plants survive with very little water made me acutely aware of the miracles around us.