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 Vultures and lions are not always the best of friends; in fact you could say that they really despise each other. Vultures have to wait painstakingly for a chance to feed on a big carcass, and the sight of hundreds of vultures in trees around a large carcass is not uncommon. This is compounded by the fact that lions will hog the carcass until they are...
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 14 June 2008
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“Isaac, how many times have you seen a caracal in the 15 years you have been a tracker?” Isaac answers, “Only 4 times!” So when this small but powerfully built predator revealed itself one evening drive, Isaac nearly fell off the tracker seat in excitement!!! It was a lone female, hunting, moving silently through the grasslands searching for small...
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 5 June 2008
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“Isaac, how many times have you seen a caracal in the 15 years you have been a tracker?” Isaac answers, “Only 4 times!” So when this small but powerfully built predator revealed itself one evening drive, Isaac nearly fell off the tracker seat in excitement!!! It was a lone female, hunting, moving silently through the grasslands searching for small...
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 5 June 2008
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Leucism is a strange anomaly that occurs in the animal kingdom when pigment of a certain animal doesn’t develop properly, and the result is and animal that is all white in colour. It is common in birds, but I have not seen in too much in mammals. We know of the white lions that are found in the timbavati area, but I have never seen it occur in herbivores....
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 1 May 2008
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 A lot of guests that come to our wildlife areas have a preconceived image of what a hippo would look like and what its character is. The old Walt Disney image of hippos prancing around in tutus and being friendly to all is unfortunately incorrect. Those that have witnessed them in the wild will know that they are anything but friendly, being probably the...
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 1 May 2008
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When you speak to most rangers they will tell you that they have at least one animal that has eluded them in their guiding career. For me, it has definitely been the Cape clawless otter!! I have seen fresh signs of this elusive creature, been minutes behind a feeding male, and still no luck in seeing it. This all changed for me one afternoon drive, when...
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 19 April 2008
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"Have you ever seen a pangolin?" A popular question that is posed to guides all the time. One in which the response is often NO. For the guests and ranger that were on drive at Exeter last week, this answer is no a resounding YES!! This fascinating and reclusive animal decided that it would present itself, rather than be found. It did this by rolling up...
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 17 April 2008
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 In a previous sighting we commented on the leucistic impala that we were seeing around Exeter. Well, she is still alive and seems to be functioning well within the herd and has survived thus far. The only problem is that she looks like a he, but is in fact a she!! If being a funny colour wasn’t enough, she now has to deal with the fact that she has some...
Posted: Exeter by Chris Renshaw, Date: 14 June 2007
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