Having fun after a mud bath!
Fun fact: Young elephant calves sometimes suck their trunks to help them relaxing when they are not feeding.
Many of us have to stay home in this worldwide crisis. So I thought you might enjoy to receive a wildlife image every day of the week until things are back to normal.
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A lot of my friends around the world are quite envious about my lock down location. Being grounded on a beautiful 14,000ha big five game reserve is not the worst fait for a professional wildlife photographer.
To share a bit of my luck I will continue to post pictures taken on game drives on Thanda during this crisis. I hope they will brighten up your stay-at-home days a little.
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Being the resident wildlife photographer, locked down on Thanda Safari, I went on a game drive this afternoon to bring a few animal images from this beautiful place to your home.
I hope you enjoy this special photographic game drive. All the pictures were taken today.
Have a good evening 😊
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A bit of a (Zebra-)laugh. Have a good day!
Many of us have to stay home in this worldwide crisis. So I thought you might enjoy to receive a wildlife image every day of the week until things are back to normal.
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This little Elephant enjoyed its mud bath at the Thanda Tented Camp waterhole 😊 Have a good weekend!
PS: The picture was taken with an iPhone XS Max and a set of Nikon Monarch Binoculars.
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BIRD WEDNESDAY – BLUE WAXBILL
This is one of my favorite ‘tiny birds’. Blue Waxbills are sometimes called blue-cheeked cordon-bleu or blue-breasted cordon-bleu. They are quite common in Southern Africa.
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African Rock Pythons are Africa’s largest snake and one of the six largest snake species in the world. They can grow up to be over 6 meters (20 ft).
This is a collage of pictures of a very young specimen basking in the evening sun on top of a dead tree.
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Impalas in the afternoon sun!
Theses medium-sized antelopes are found in eastern and southern Africa.
One of the reasons why they usually look so immaculate is because they have a special dental arrangement on the front lower jaw similar to the tooth-comb. This is used for what is called allogrooming. Individuals are ‘combing’ one another’s fur on the head and the neck to remove parasites.
Have a good week 😊
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A small White Rhino calf and its mum were crossing the savanna in the soft evening light.
Enjoy your weekend!
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European Bee-eaters breed in southern Europe and in parts of north Africa and western Asia. They are migratory, wintering in Africa. I took the picture of these four last week on Thanda. Soon, they will be leaving for their flight up north.
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