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African Wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are back in the Serengeti!

In 1989 and 1990 African wild dogs were seen quite frequently in the Serengeti Plains during the rains and short dry season (December – April). Then sometime in 1990 they disappeared. I think the last time I saw three individuals was in 1991 near the Ndutu woodland. This was very sad as they are the [...]

Close Encounters of the primate kind….

The young Blackback came over and sat not far away, gazing into the distance, as if in deep thought. And then an interaction most people only dream about – being fifteen feet from a four hundred pound Gorilla picking scabs off his fingers and eating them. A curious gaze from his rich brown eyes makes [...]

What to write about?

Sometimes sightings are too numerous and too astounding to allow me to begin the recount them in a blog. It would result in a long list which certainly to me would sound nearly impossible to view in a two week period (my last safari).

I have decided to mention the caracal that we saw. I [...]

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