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African Elephant. Elephants at the Sabie River. The African elephant is one of "The Big Five," the five animals considered the most dangerous and difficult to hunt. The others are the Cape Buffalo, rhino, lion and leopard.
Aquila private game reserve is located about 2 hours drive from Cape Town, making it one of the closest places to the city to see the "big five". These traditionally included lions, rhinos, buffalo, elephant and leopard for their difficulty to hunt and kill with older rifle and bow technology. Sadly nowadays rifle and bullet tech makes this too easy, and gives rise to "canned hunting" for tourism. Here at the Aquila reserve they also run a resuce and rehabilitation programme for "canned animals" including one leopard rescued from such a scheme.
This lion had just been evicted from his pride by another male pair. His brother was killed in the proceses.
Bull Elephant, Zambezi Escarpment, Mashonaland West Oils on stretched canvas.
This Elephant Bull stands against a background of the magnificent Zambezi Valley Escarpment.. This terrain is wild and rugged and remote, where the big game of Africa is still present in surprisingly good wildlife populations.
African Elephant. The African elephant is one of "The Big Five," the five animals considered the most dangerous and difficult to hunt. The others are the Cape Buffalo, rhino, lion and leopard.
African Lion (female). After the waterbuck foiled their attack, the lionesses turned their attention to a herd of Impala.
White Rhino. White and Black Rhino are both the same color. The names are misnomers. There are two species of rhinos. One species are grazers that eat grasses and ground plants. The other are browsers that eat leaves from trees and bushes. The grazers have a broad face with a wide mouth to take in as much grass as possible.The browsers have a narrow pointed face in order to reach between the branches of bushes to get to the leaves. The name given to the grazers, White Rhino, is actually a corruption of the Dutch word for "wide." To distinguish the two, the browser species became known as Black Rhinos.
The King of the jungle was seen sitting under a shade of a small bush in Masai Mara..He has some attitude as I waited long enough for him to look at me to give me eye contact...but no way...anyway his looks are weird.Maybe he is timing something far on the opposite side.
Het bekendste natuurpark van Zuid-Afrika is toch wel Kruger National Park waar u oog in oog kunt komen te staan met de 'Big Five' oftewel de leeuw, olifant, buffel, neushoorn en luipaard. Bekijk ook wat voor moois Zuid-Afrika verder te bieden heeft. Lees meer over KRAS reizen naar Zuid-Afrika