How Does it Feel to Have Two Leopards Climbing Above You?
The answer to the question in the title? Awesome, shocking, inspiring. You cannot help but feel an elation of spirit. The way a leopard moves its slight but incredibly strong …
The answer to the question in the title? Awesome, shocking, inspiring. You cannot help but feel an elation of spirit. The way a leopard moves its slight but incredibly strong …
Many people arrive in Africa for their first safari and do not know of the African wild dog. Each time it surprises me when I hear, “I have never heard …
One of the most incredible things to watch a leopard do is climb a tree and navigate the branches. Many people associate leopards with trees. They ask, “Does one always …
The bush is ever changing; the plants, trees, animals and birds are constantly adapting in new ways to suit a dynamic and competitive environment. Each element of the bush, from …
A few days ago I noticed two white-backed vultures descending in the distance. When vultures descend like this, it is often because they have spotted a carcass and are looking …
No, they’re not. Case closed. I should really leave it there, but there’s a lot more to it of course. One of the best lines I’ve read in a nature …
If you work as a guide for long enough in a Big 5 area, you’re going to get a fright or two. Some of these may just be gentle reminders …
In the early hours of Saturday morning, in an incident unseen by human eyes – like so many others in the bush – the Piva male leopard, one of Londolozi’s …
Every morning for four-and-a-half years, Chris Goodman has come out of his home in the morning and felt a little disappointed. In the Sausage tree outside his front door, staring at …
As a guide in training I have had the opportunity to shadow a number of experienced guides over the last few weeks. During this time there was a particular moment …
“We do not inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb. A very rare occasion today as I write a blog that …
The first TWIP of 2017 is by rights a collaborative effort, with a number of different rangers contributing a picture or two. Talk of the town – and by “town”, …
Having nearly stepped on this leopard twice during my time at Londolozi, and being incredibly fortunate to come away with a whole skin both times (see A Freebie and Don’t Look a Leopard …
I’ve come to the conclusion that baboons are prototype humans. Driving the banks of the Sand River, temporarily sluggish in the January heat, we chanced across a troop of baboons …