This video is a Serengeti documentary. Reports now circulating on the web suggest that the Government of Tanzania has given the go ahead for a road to be built right across the Serengeti, potentially blocking the migration route of the wildebeest, threatening the wildlife with a large amount of high speed traffic and providing easy […]
via Serengeti nature reserve threatened — Dear Kitty. Some blog
I have been visiting South Africa’s wild places for all my 40+ years, and yet there’s still many of their treasures I am yet to see. Following our September visit to the Kruger National Park I can now finally tick my first ever encounter with a leopard cub! We found the little one lazily watching […]
“Probably there is no other bird whose appearance on the wing and on the ground offers more vivid contrast. Sailing majestically far up in the blue, without perceptible movement of its great pinions, it seems to cleave the air free of all conscious effort, and conveys to the earth dweller far below, the ideal of […]
A report by Andrea Rodriguez for the ASSOCIATED PRESS. Silently and without pause, the giant African snail has been invading Cuba. With their shiny, brilliantly striped shells and bodies up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, the snails have become public enemy No. 1 for epidemiologists and citizens have grown to fear their ability to […]
We have previously posted on this invasive species and the problems that they have brought to Antigua, Barbados, and the United States, especially in southern Florida. Now the US is in a panic over potential crop damage and many entities are taking action to combat “the invasion of the Giant African Snails” (wondering when Hollywood […]
via Miami Battles Invasion of Giant African Snails — Repeating Islands
This group of Plains Zebra, seen in September between Crocodile Bridge and Lower Sabie in the Kruger National Park, illustrates perfectly just how well those black-and-white stripes are at breaking the individual animals’ outlines, making it much more difficult for a predator to single out a target.
