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Rhulani Minute Safari - Eating elephant close-up
Rhulani Minute Safari - Eating elephant close-up
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Just look at how skillfully and smoothly the elephant peels the last remaining juicy parts of the dry and thorny bush with its trunk and thus prepares its food....
Rhulani Insights 239 – Flying termites
Rhulani Insights 239 – Flying termites
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Today it seems we have been caught in a small snowstorm. Snow in Madikwe? Impossible. The rainy season has just started and that is the time when the termites swarm out to form new colonies. Let's tal...
Rhulani Minute Safari - Busy activity at the dry pan
Rhulani Minute Safari - Busy activity at the dry pan
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The sparse (and now unfortunately almost dried up) watering holes are popular places for a wide variety of animal species in the dry season. Today at the pan, where there is almost only wet mud, we me...
Life of a Ranger: Elephant peeling a stump
Life of a Ranger: Elephant peeling a stump
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Did you know that elephants are particularly good at peeling and chewing the bark off stumps during droughts when there is no juicy food? Rhulani's ranger Dean tells us today about this eating habit o...
Rhulani Minute Safari - An easy catch for the lion
Rhulani Minute Safari - An easy catch for the lion
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Somewhat unusual and sad pictures from a sighting out in the bush today. When a mother zebra had problems giving birth to her young, she and the unborn became an easy catch for the lion, who is now ly...
Bush stories: Predatory crocodiles
Bush stories: Predatory crocodiles
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Be close to our rangers when they make great game sightings on the daily safaris, like today when Rhulani's head guide Alasdair finds three crocodiles eating an impala at a pond. How could this happen...
Rhulani Minute Safari - Happy muddy elephant
Rhulani Minute Safari - Happy muddy elephant
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Look at how the little elephant is having fun in the almost dried up puddle in the remaining mud. You could watch these animals for hours, couldn't you?...
Bush Stories: The end of the impala
Bush Stories: The end of the impala
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Don't miss anything and join in when our rangers report on current sightings that are unusual even for them. Today Willem sends us a fantastic and rare sighting where a lioness in the open field takes...
Life of a Ranger: Cheetah conservation
Life of a Ranger: Cheetah conservation
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Did you know that cheetahs are endangered and that we therefore need to protect them? Rhulani's Head Guide Alasdair tells us today about a cheetah conservation activity funded by Rhulani, where we had...
Bush Stories: Lion cubs
Bush Stories: Lion cubs
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Bush Stories! Don't miss anything and join in when our rangers report on current sightings that are unusual even for them. Today Captain Redbeard Alasdair comes across a lioness with very small cubs. ...
Rhulani Minute Safari - Majestic male kudu
Rhulani Minute Safari - Majestic male kudu
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Male kudus of different ages pass us through the landscape. There are a few fully grown ones with long, curved and majestic horns, but there are also younger boys with very small horns, which get long...
Rhulani Insights 237 – Rock monitor stuck in the tree
Rhulani Insights 237 – Rock monitor stuck in the tree
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In today's blog, three of the rangers from Rhulani Safari Lodge have gathered in this dense, thorny shepherd's bush to liberate a rock monitor that was entangled in it out of this awkward situation. B...