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- The Kori Bustard always has a wary eye on you. It will not let you get too close and will simply walk away at a brisk pace if you get inside its comfort zone.
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- Great Spotted Cuckoo taken from below the bird. The colouring is much more interesting from the top. It has an unmistakable grey crest, spotted back and creamy coloured breast feathers. This shot was taken in Mashatu Game Reserve.
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- It is Sunday morning – not much happening and it is nice and warm in Mashatu – let it all hang out!!
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- This Tree Squirrel found a seed pod to eat. A perfect spot to survey his domain in Mashatu Game Reserve.
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- This tree Squirrel was coming down the tree to drink. A quick pause to see if the area was clear. These Tree Squirrels are relatively common in Mashatu Game Reserve.
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- Bonecrusher queen showing her gentle side. This Hyaena den was in a glade of trees next to the river in Mashatu Game Reserve.
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- Driving out of Mashatu around midday these two Giraffe, mother and calf, were resting in the shade.
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- Hyaena matriarch allowing her cub to suckle at the den in a shady glade from trees next to the Matabole River in Mashatu Game Reserve.
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- Hyaena female sunning herself in the early morning in winter in the Mashatu Game Reserve.
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- Hyaena cub at the den in the Mashatu Game Reserve. It was shady and cool for the Hyaenas but made more difficult photography and for obvious reasons it was not wise to try to get an eye-level perspective.
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- These two young Elephant were having great fun barging into each other in a flower filled open patch in Mashatu.
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- These two young Elephant looked to be great pals and were having a great time chasing after each other amongst the flowers in Mashatu.
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- These two young Elephant tumbled over each other they were having great fun together.
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- A big family – five Cheetah cubs in Mashatu.
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- These Cheetah cubs were being led up to the top of a hill where their mother could look out for potential prey in Mashatu.
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- This Cheetah Mum has done well to rear to five cubs to ther current age – a huge job trying to keep them well fed.
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- Comfortable together – two Cheetah cubs in Mashatu.
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- These Cheetah cubs were affectionate and playful with each other in Mashatu.
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- Two of a family of five young Cheetah resting late in the afternoon in Mashatu.
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- Silhouette of two Cheetah cubs as they came over a hill in Mashatu.
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- Four of five Cheetah cubs on top of a hill with their mother looking down on the open plains below for a potential meal in Mashatu.
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- This Cheetah female was the first on top of Cheetah Kopjie in Mashatu.
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- A male and female Giraffe in warm light early one morning in Mashatu.
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- Early one summer morning, this young female Leopard was chilling out on a dead branch in Mashatu.
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- This male Leopard was high up getting some peace late one afternoon in Mashatu.He was dosing but every now and then a noise would catch his attention.
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- Close up of one very relaxed female Leopard lying on a horizontal branch in a glade of trees in Mashatu.
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- This looked a really comfortable way to lie along this branch. Front legs flopped down in total relaxation.
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- This female Leopard was taking a break from her three youngsters. She looked so relaxed and was not perturbed by us at all.
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- Chilling out in the early morning sun after having come down from the top of the massive Masahtu tree behind this big male Baboon.
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- When you are a young Baboon and you have an itch you have to scratch!!
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- Limpopo River in winter – reduced to just pools. You can drive across it in the dry winter season.
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- The sky on fire – a sunset in Mashatu on a winter’s evening
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- Some evenings in Mashatu the sunsets do not as have the rich saturated colours as those in winter when there is a lot of dust in the air.
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- Drinks with a view at sunset in Mashatu
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- Silhouette of Rhodes Baobab in Mashatu – we could not leave any later as we still had to get down the hill in the dark with Hyaena whooping all around us.
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- Silhouette of Rhodes Baobab in Mashatu – we could not leave any later as we still had to get down the hill in the dark with Hyaena whooping all around us.
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- My old ‘shamwari’ Mike Condy enjoying his pipe at sunset in Mashatu.
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- Silhouette of Rhodes Baobab in Mashatu – we could not leave any later as we still had to get down the hill in the dark with Hyaena whooping all around us.
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- Rhodes Baobab in Mashatu
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