While driving in the late afternoon from a camp just inside the woodland on the edge of the Serengeti Plains to a fly camp we had set up farther east, we spotted an unusual hyaenid feeding in the grassland.

It was an aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), one of the most exciting unusual animals to encounter. We [...]

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It is now the “green season” – that popular time to be on safari between the short rains in November and the long rains in April.
My first safari this green season was over Christmas and New Year. I was with a wonderful extended family from various places between Alaska, Washington and Maryland who were [...]

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