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2017-07-12

Hold them by the tail!

Posted today on Thanda Safari’s blog …

Bheki Ngubane, one of Thanda Safari’s experienced trackers, often shows our guests a scorpion during the morning drink stop. As everyone enjoy their coffee, tea or hot chocolate Bheki has a look around the area for a scorpion resting under a stone. He will pick it up – carefully – by the tail and bring it over for everyone to have look. Bheki and I often let these small predators sit and walk on our hands. When the ‘show and tell’ is finished Bheki replaces the eight-legged creature back in its home, under the stone!

PS: Please do not try this at home! Some scorpions are very venomous and one needs to know with which ones one can perform this show safely 🙂

Text and Pictures by Christian Sperka – Resident Wildlife Photographer – Thanda Safari

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Chacma Baboons (SG19)

Fun to watch, no fun to have around the house: Chacma Baboons!

I just uploaded 45 of my Chacma Baboon images – taken between 2005 and 2017 – to www.sperka.biz/sg19.

More species gallery available online at http://www.sperka.biz/sg.

The galleries for Aardvark, Aardwolf and Blesbok are also new.

Asiatic Lion (SG16)

I have a lot of images of African Lions, but only a few of the very rare Asiatic Lion (from the Zurich Zoo).

I just uploaded 17 of them – taken between 2009 and 2016 to www.sperka.biz/sg16.

More species gallery available online at http://www.sperka.biz/sg.

2017-06-26

May and June

In the last weeks I did not have a lot of time to blog. But over the last few days I worked on a lot of images (sorting/filing/deleting/editing a few thousand) and I thought you might like to see some of my favorite shots from May and June 2017 which I took at Thanda Safari.

The Big Five, Cheetah, Hyena and more …

Enjoy them!

Almost no light, but still very special indeed …

Me and The Green Mamba 1 – More information at https://sperka.info/gm/

Pictures information for the photographers among you:

10 June – Small Elephant – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 300mm
11 May – Large Elephant – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 85mm (DoF-PP)
30 May – Small Lion – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 85mm
28 May – Me (Mirror) and Hyena – iPhone 7 Plus
9 June – Vulture – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 270mm
30 May – Pride of Lions – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 105mm
2 June – Cheetah – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 250mm (DoF-PP)
5 June – Bark Spider – iPhone 7 Plus
28 May – Hyena on Kill – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 90mm (DoF-PP)
28 May – Giraffes fighting – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 235mm
12 May – Leopard with Nyala kill – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 300mm
20 May – White Rhino with new-born calf – Canon 1D Mark IV with 28-300L at 105mm
8 June – Cape Buffalo bull – iPhone 7 Plus (2x magnification)
28 May Me with my Canon 1D Mark IV and the Canon 28-300L lens sitting in the Green Mamba 1 – iPhone 7 Plus