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Life of a Ranger: The white ring of the waterbuck
Life of a Ranger: The white ring of the waterbuck
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that waterbucks are easily identified by a white ring around their rump, which looks as if they've just sat on a wet toilet seat? Rhulani's ranger, Thato, shows us a few female waterbucks...
Rhulani Insights 252 – A tortoise visit
Rhulani Insights 252 – A tortoise visit
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Anything can happen, and little surprises await you at any time, anywhere in the lodge, if you keep your eyes and ears open. Like today, when a leopard tortoise makes a tour of the lodge in the middle...
Life of a Ranger: Howling hyenas
Life of a Ranger: Howling hyenas
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that the howling, or "laughing," of hyenas is an important means of communication, both between hyenas within a clan and with other hyena clans? Rhulani's head guide Alasdair tells us tod...
Rhulani Insights 251 - An old elephant mother with her baby
Rhulani Insights 251 - An old elephant mother with her baby
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Idyllic sunset, vast savannah, and all alone out here, we come across a mother elephant with her baby, trying to chew some sap from the dry branches during the dry season. As field guide Alasdair tell...
Life of a Ranger: Lion family life
Life of a Ranger: Lion family life
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that lions typically live in prides, and that if they have little cubs, you can have fantastic sightings where you can witness lion family life? Rhulani's ranger Willem shows us one of hi...
Life of a Ranger: Hornbill breeding habits
Life of a Ranger: Hornbill breeding habits
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that the hornbills nest in the cavity of a large tree, where the female lays one or two eggs on the nest and the male on the outside of the tree, and the female will work together to seal...
Life of a Ranger: Female antelopes with horns
Life of a Ranger: Female antelopes with horns
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that in nature, it sometimes happens that female antelopes develop horns like the males due to a genetic misprogramming? Rhulani's head ranger, Alasdair, shows us examples of a female imp...
Life of a Ranger: Community nest spider
Life of a Ranger: Community nest spider
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that the so-called "community nest spider" forms a real tangle of spider webs in a bush in order to catch as many insects as possible that fly past? Rhulani's ranger Thato introduces us t...
Rhulani bush stories: Cheetah hunting lessons
Rhulani bush stories: Cheetah hunting lessons
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
"I've never seen anything like this before," says Willem, who set off at 5:00 a.m. and didn't return to Rhulani until after 2:00 p.m. What initially seemed like a pleasant sighting of a mother cheetah...
Life of a Ranger: Cheetah climbing a termite mound
Life of a Ranger: Cheetah climbing a termite mound
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that cheetahs love to climb termite mounds and mark their territory there? Rhulani's ranger Willem shows us this kind of behavior from two cheetah brothers today, and yes, it is once agai...
Rhulani bush stories: Two cheetahs, two kills
Rhulani bush stories: Two cheetahs, two kills
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
"That was absolutely insane," says our head ranger Captain Redbeard Alasdair about this sighting from the end of last week. There were two cheetahs we found, clearly on a mission, and we followed them...
Life of a Ranger: Elephant self-healer
Life of a Ranger: Elephant self-healer
| Rhulani Safari Lodge
Did you know that an elephant's foot has a very soft padding like a cushion which allows it to walk quietly through the savannah? Rhulani's head guide Alasdair tells us today about an elephant that he...