In February while on safari with Bill Perkins and Evelyn Sandground, we had exceptional predator sightings… On our descent into Ngorongoro Crater, I decided to drive through Lerai forest to look for some of the Crater’s big tuskers. Instead the sight of three young lions trying to kill a big buffalo bull greeted us. The [...]

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Regular readers of our blog might find that the sightings mentioned in my article “Slim, Sleek, Slender and Spotted Sprinter” of March 2008 are either very rare or exaggerated. Well the cheetah sightings with Mathieson family that we enjoyed in December 2008 / January 2009 amounted to over 19 different cheetahs in six different groupings [...]

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We departed camp early and were almost immediately greeted by a herd of more than a thousand wildebeest. Lines of more wildebeest rolled in, and the restless herd moved up and down the northern bank of the Mara River, stopping at strategic places to assess whether it was safe or not to cross. A crocodile [...]

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