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Large African Carnivores

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 14 2008 | By: zimbabwewilddogs

Hi guys,

I think I mentioned in a previous post that we’ve been doing a spoor survey over the past few weeks; looking along the roads for the tracks of Africa’s large carnivores.  We’ve found the tracks of pretty much everything; lions, leopards (lots), wild dogs, cheetahs, spotted hyenas, brown hyenas, civets, african wild cats, honey badgers and porcupines.  We even saw an actual cheetah the other day (!), which was very special as they are so rare. 

This is a family I saw earlier this year on the road

Cheetah family - July 2008

We also bumped into a black rhino yesterday whilst looking for tracks.  He’d been de-horned by the rhino team here in an effort to prevent poaching.  A sad, but necessary thing to do.  Hopefully he will at least survive, despite not having a horn.

Still another 10 days or so of early starts and spoor transects…

Back soon,

Rosemary

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