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 A dead elephant carcass set the scene for a feeding bonanza. Every tree was packed with white backed vultures for miles around the area. There were also hooded, lappet-faced and cape vultures scraping for a spot inside the huge cavity. Hyeana clans did not miss out on this free meal eiter and would gorge themselves on the huge pile of meat and bones....
Posted: Ngala by Ian Pletzer, Date: 16 February 2011
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 Today I witnessed one of the spectacles of the natural world that I have waited the longest to see. A Red-billed Quelea colony (most numerous bird in the world according to some sources) is active in the east of Ngala. As one approaches the nesting area, the sky is full of raptors. Raptors flutter out of the trees close to the road and in the distance...
Posted: Ngala by Alastair Kilpin, Date: 13 February 2011
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This past week has seen Ngala become the home base for not one but two packs of wild dogs, with daily hunts by both packs. The packs combined over 34 dogs. Guests were overwhelmed with the thrill of both packs hunting and the antics of full happy pack members interacting, on a daily basis. The packs at one stage were just a few hundred metres from...
Posted: Ngala by Brett Craig, Date: 31 January 2011
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 Not many people around the world will get the privilege of viewing these endangered animals in their natural environment, but many who have travelled to Ngala Private Game Reserve recently have been lucky enough to see exactly that. Last week, Herbert and I spent a bit of time driving around the north of our reserve trying to follow up on a pack of...
Posted: Ngala by CC Africa, Date: 20 January 2011
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 The highlight of the game drive the other night for me was seeing this spider-hunting wasp dragging a paralyzed baboon spider back to its burrow. Typically they pre-dig a burrow, then lay an egg on the living, but paralysed corpse that they have brought back to the burrow. Once the egg hatches some 10 days later, the larvae will feed on the spider...
Posted: Ngala by CC Africa, Date: 20 January 2011
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 It is the rainy season and Ngala Private Game Reserve has had a lot of it, this wilderness area is looking lush and moist and very green and is the perfect time for leverets to be born as the grazing is excellent. When these small mammals are born they can immediately move around, hear, as well as see this magnificent world around them, within...
Posted: Ngala by Daryl Dell, Date: 20 January 2011
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 One afternoon we drove past an old quarry near the Ngala airstrip interrupting an interesting bird party. On closer inspection we realised that flying termites were bursting out of the ground for the nuptial flight which had attracted all of these different birds in a feeding frenzy. Sitting there for 5 minutes we identified the following bird species:...
Posted: Ngala by CC Africa, Date: 20 January 2011
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 As I drove out of Ngala Private Game Reserve after my 6 week work cycle, I had a lovely sighting. A pack of 8 wild dog pups came to "see me off". Not a bad farewell!
Posted: Ngala by Lee-Anne Davis, Date: 19 January 2011
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 We’ve been extremely fortunate lately to have fantastic leopard sightings. None more so than a female we often find around the Timbavati River bed with her young cub. The little one is slowly growing in confidence, unafraid to show itself, climbing trees and playing with carcasses that its mom has caught.
Posted: Ngala by Dylan Davies, Date: 19 January 2011
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 Summer has well and truly arrived along with the summer rains and an incredible variety of insects and arachnids. This Garden Orb was repairing part of her web after a downpour with the exoskeleton of a previous meal dangling below her.
Posted: Ngala by Dylan Davies, Date: 19 January 2011
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