Tag: wildlife
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Baby season
In May every year we have a bush festival of sorts, with its own music and in which adult act like teenagers and you only participate if you’re an impala. It’s a big party because females come into heat. All of them. At the same time. The amount of hormones fluttering about make all the…
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Crime scene
One of the most enchanting aspects of a being out in nature and not seeing animals is to focus of the puzzle pieces their movements leave behind. From learning to identify tracks, to scratches in the sand, to being able to predict movements, it all becomes part of the game that makes you feel nothing…
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Where the wild things are
There are moments out there in the bush where small conversations carry a universal feeling. As the last of the lights flicker in the horizon, you allow yourself to wonder at the world, at humanity, at the future. Sometimes the silent whispers and the hushed conversations you share in the wilderness are all that it…
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Date in my face
Would you like to go see baby rhinos tomorrow? Heart stops. Is the pope catholic? Do I love coffee? Are leopards Tristan’s favorites? Need I say more? If people know me well enough, yes is always my answer to seeing rhinos, especially young ones. They bring me back to a happy place and fill my…
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Search for elephants
Of homemade remedies many have spoken. There are those that consider nothing can beat the power of advil and there are those who believe in homeopathy; for them to work, we just have to apply it to the right personality. A small piece of chocolate for the soul, honey and ginger tea for the throat,…