Botswana Birding Safari 2008
Looking for Birds and Big Game in all the Right Places

(March 11-23, 2008)

MAMMALS (33 species recorded)

Vervet Monkey

Cape Buffalo

Chacma Baboon

Hippopotamus pool

Here's lookin' at you kid

Mamma hippo tracks

Baby hippo tracks

Red Lechwe

Kudu with Red-billed Oxpecker

Bushbuck

Sable

Sables

Spotted Hyaena

Black-backed Jackal

Not quite sure about each other! Black-backed Jackal and Impala

African Elephant

Elephant eating a palm tree

Palm seems to be tasty

One tusk or two?

Zebra and zebrette

Giraffes

Giraffes and Impala

Birder's photo of a giraffe (and Yellow-billed Oxpecker)

Young female leopard with impala tartare

She was poaching another's kill

Did you hear anything?

A little bit of defiance before retreating from the rightful owner

Later, this male leopard swiped the carcass anyway...

Yet another leopard, getting in some heavy-duty snoozing

18-month-old lioness

just relaxing...

We almost ran over this guy, sleeping in the grass

but, you know, cats sleep a lot

and those are very heavy eyelids.

This guy, however, just woke up

and he and his brother are feeling peckish

Ah zebra, the other red meat.

Yellow mongoose

Brindled Gnu or Blue Wildebeast

Dung beetles on a White Rhino midden

And here's the sleepy Rhino

Oh, he knows we're here!

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