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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus. Their presence indicates large mammals nearby – and only a few meters away, one Southern White Rhinoceros mother with a calf disappears among the bushes. A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds.

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

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Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Shadows of Africa

10,000 Birds

The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus. Their presence indicates large mammals nearby – and only a few meters away, one Southern White Rhinoceros mother with a calf disappears among the bushes. A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds.

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Busch Gardens welcomes a baby giraffe!

4 The Love Of Animals

Busch Gardens’ 65-acre Serengeti Plain is a naturalistic habitat featuring a diverse population of free-roaming African animals including giraffe, zebra, white rhinoceros, eland antelope and several other species of hoof stock and birds. Both mother and baby will join the other animals on the Serengeti Plain in about three months.

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Cute of the Day: baby giraffes

4 The Love Of Animals

Busch Gardens’ 65-acre Serengeti Plain is a naturalistic habitat featuring a diverse population of free-roaming African animals including giraffe, zebra, white rhinoceros, eland antelope and several other species of hoof stock and birds. These births are part of a successful long-term breeding program at Busch Gardens.

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Cute of the Day: All Legs Baby!

4 The Love Of Animals

Busch Gardens’ 65-acre Serengeti Plain is a naturalistic habitat featuring a diverse population of free-roaming African animals including giraffe, zebra, white rhinoceros, eland antelope and several other species of hoof stock and birds. These births are part of a successful long-term breeding program at Busch Gardens.

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