Wildebeest
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While migrating across the Serengeti Plains, some Zebras and Wildebeest (Gnu) paused for shelter beneath this acacia tree. / The false-colour effect of the infrared processing adds a very surreal flavour! ID: F1_50C6
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Wildebeest on the run against a stormy Masai Mara sky
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Wildebeest migration across the Mara plains. / / (Masai Mara – Kenya) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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A crossing at The Wall, Mara River, Kenya. A truly awesome and exhilarating experience as thousands of wildebeest cross the river only to be confronted by a sheer river bank which they are unable to climb.
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Wildebeest and zebra gather in their thousands in the Masai Mara before heading off on the great migration.
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Wildebeest having a well earned drink on the edge of a crossing. / Taken from the other side of the river. / / (Masai Mara – Kenya) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
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LOCATION CAPTURED: GROENLANDGAMELODGE, Tolwe, Limpopo Province, South Africa BLUE WILDEBEEST RE-INTRUDUCED TO THE GAME-FARM. /
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CAPTURED: GROENLAND GAME LODGE, Tolwe, Limpopo Province, South Africa. / These are gregarious animals. The bulls are higly territorial and stake out specific areas. They create mumerous rolling grounds, usually in open areas that ptovide good visibility, and often deposit their dung there. Their scent forms an important part of communication. Although swift runners, they nevertheless fall prey to lions. / /
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LOCATION CAPTURED: GROENLAND GAME LODGE, TOLWE, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA.
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From an Original Pastel by Angela Drysdale
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Various animals on the move across the Masai Mara, Wildebeest and Zebra to the fore
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A Brindled Gnu (or Blue Wildebeest) against an edited sunset. Connochaetes taurinus
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THE SNORTING OF THE “BLUE WILDEBEEST”, VISIBLE THROUGH MY BEDROOM WINDOW, IS MY WAKE-UP CALL EVERY MORNING! THIS IS MY VIEW, THIS IS MY PLACE, THIS IS MY LIFE! / GROENLAND GAMELODGE, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA. BLUE WILDEBEEST – Connochaetes taurinus Although these animals have never approached extinction like the black wildebeest, the numbers are a far cry from the massive herds which roamed the plains of the early habitat, particularly East Africa. There are, however, still areas of fairly large herd aggregations. In this sub-region, Botswana still sees large herd movements. Their preferred habitat is open grassland, floodplain grassland, and bush savanna, but also utilizes light woodland. Water is an essential component of their habitat. / They are diurnal and are most active during the morning and later afternoon, resting in the heat of the day. On cooler days are active all days are active all day and also active on moontlight nights. The territorial male will indulge in a variety of territorial displays to suit the occasion. It will dissuade an interloper with a threat display, involving erect neck and forward direct head and a rocking-horse catering motion forward, which is usually sufficient to send the other male off. Males will herd females with a lowered head, and streaming tail, grunting and lowing. Young females may stay in the herd for life but males are sent off to join bachelor groups. Both sexes carry horns with those of the female being less robust. / Predators are lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena, wild dog and for calves, also black-backed jackal. Great mortality through drowning and trampling has been recorded in the massive migrations. This provides a feast for predators and scavengers, which follow the herds to pick out the weak and young. The wildebeest is a prey favoured by the lion above the zebra. The zebra, it is believed, senses this and associates with the wildebeest herds for the safety the association provides. / Females in oestrus move restlessly from one territorial bull to another, mating with several. Copulation is usually at night. One precocial calf is born and must be able to move with the herd at a very early age if it is to escape the predators. / Food: They are grazers, eating usually only very short grass. Their spatulate shaped muzzle allows them to fee on the very short grass. They particularly favour newly-sprouted grass after fire.
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Captured at Amboseli, Kenya, during a photographic workshop years ago. Nikon FE and Velvia (scanned from slide).
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The Cheetah The fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah is a marvel of evolution. The cheetah’s slender, long-legged body is built for speed. Cheetahs are tan in color with black spots all over their bodies. They can also be distinguished from other big cats by their smaller size, spotted coats, small heads and ears and distinctive “tear stripes” that stretch from the corner of the eye to the side of the nose. Found mostly in open and partially open savannah, cheetahs rely on tall grasses for camouflage when hunting. They are diurnal (more active in the day) animals and hunt mostly during the late morning or early evening. Only half of the chases, which last from 20-60 seconds, are successful. Cheetahs knock their prey to the ground and kill with a suffocating bite to the neck. They must eat quickly before they lose the kills to other bigger or more aggressive carnivores. Cheetahs are also typically solitary animals. While males sometimes live with a small group of brothers from the same litter, females generally raise cubs by themselves for about a year. Height 2 ½ -3 feet at shoulders / Length 44-53 inches (tail length of 26-33 inches) / Weight 110-140 pounds Top Speed 70mph Lifespan 10-12 years Diet Gazelles, wildebeest calves, impalas and smaller hoofed animals Threats The cheetah’s future is uncertain due to a variety of threats. The biggest is habitat loss due to human encroachment. In addition, they often deal with declines in prey and conflicts with humans. There is also high cub mortality due to predation by carnivores like lions and hyenas that are in competition with the cheetah, as well as genetic inbreeding which leads to abnormalities.
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This is a watercolour and was inspired after I went on our honeymoon on safari. prints for sale
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This wildebeest, or Godfrey the gnu as we named him, was more interested in keeping an eye on us than watching the magnificent sunset going on behind him. He might also, of course, have been keeping a wary eye on a couple of lions that were lazing in the evening sun not far from us. / However, he was an obliging fellow; he stood still as the sun went down behind him and it wasn’t until the sun disappeared from our view that he seemed to shrug and wander off along the ridge. / Taken in the Masai Mara, Kenya. / Canon EOS 3 with Canon 300mm f2.8L lens and x2 extender using Fuji Provia transparency fim. Scanned with a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED scanner. Number of views as on 10 November 2009 – 820
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Wildebeest head out to their grazing grounds in the dusty dawn in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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Wildebeest taken at Plumary in Magaliesburg
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The Cheetah The fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah is a marvel of evolution. The cheetah’s slender, long-legged body is built for speed. Cheetahs are tan in color with black spots all over their bodies. They can also be distinguished from other big cats by their smaller size, spotted coats, small heads and ears and distinctive “tear stripes” that stretch from the corner of the eye to the side of the nose. Found mostly in open and partially open savannah, cheetahs rely on tall grasses for camouflage when hunting. They are diurnal (more active in the day) animals and hunt mostly during the late morning or early evening. Only half of the chases, which last from 20-60 seconds, are successful. Cheetahs knock their prey to the ground and kill with a suffocating bite to the neck. They must eat quickly before they lose the kills to other bigger or more aggressive carnivores. Cheetahs are also typically solitary animals. While males sometimes live with a small group of brothers from the same litter, females generally raise cubs by themselves for about a year. Height 2 ½ -3 feet at shoulders / Length 44-53 inches (tail length of 26-33 inches) / Weight 110-140 pounds Top Speed 70mph Lifespan 10-12 years Diet Gazelles, wildebeest calves, impalas and smaller hoofed animals Threats The cheetah’s future is uncertain due to a variety of threats. The biggest is habitat loss due to human encroachment. In addition, they often deal with declines in prey and conflicts with humans. There is also high cub mortality due to predation by carnivores like lions and hyenas that are in competition with the cheetah, as well as genetic inbreeding which leads to abnormalities. ””EYE CONTACT”” was featured in Eye Macros
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The African Wild Dog is a carnivorous mammal of the Canidae family, found only in Africa, especially in scrub savanna and other lightly wooded areas. It is also called the Painted Hunting Dog, African Hunting Dog, the Cape Hunting Dog, the Spotted Dog, or the Painted Wolf in English. The African Wild Dog hunts in packs. Like most members of the dog family, it is a cursorial hunter, meaning that it pursues its prey in a long, open chase. Nearly 80% of all hunts end in a kill. Members of a pack vocalize to help coordinate their movements. Its voice is characterized by an unusual chirping or squeaking sound, similar to a bird. After a successful hunt, hunters regurgitate meat for those that remained at the den during the hunt, such as the dominant female and the pups. They will also feed other pack members, such as the sick, injured, or very old that cannot keep up. The African Wild Dog’s main prey varies among populations but always centers around medium-sized ungulates, such as the Impala. While the vast majority of its diet is made up of mammal prey, it sometimes hunts large birds, especially Ostriches. A few packs will also include large animals in their prey, such as wildebeests and zebras. Hunting larger prey requires a closely coordinated attack, beginning with a rapid charge to stampede the herd. One African Wild Dog then grabs the victim’s tail, while another attacks the upper lip, and the remainder disembowel the animal while it is immobilised. This behaviour is also used on other large dangerous prey, such as the warthog, the African Buffalo, giraffe calves, and large antelope—even the one-ton Giant Eland. The dogs often eat their prey while it is still alive. This disemboweling was a reason to regard the African Wild Dog as repulsive, but recent studies have shown that prey of the African Wild Dog die more quickly than prey of the lion and the leopard, which kill their prey by grabbing the throat and suffocating the animal. Remarkably, this large-animal hunting tactic appears to be a learned behavior, passed on from generation to generation within specific hunting packs, rather than an instinctive behaviour found commonly within the species. Some studies have also shown that other information, such as the location of watering holes, may be passed on in a similar fashion. The African Wild Dog is endangered by habitat loss and hunting. It uses very large territories (and so can persist only in large wildlife protected areas), and it is strongly affected by competition with larger carnivores that rely on the same prey base, particularly the lion and the Spotted Hyena. Lions often will kill as many wild dogs as they can but do not eat them. Hyenas usually follow them to steal their kills. One on one the hyena is much more powerful than the Wild Dog but a large group of Wild Dogs can successfully chase off a small number of hyenas because of their teamwork. It is also killed by livestock herders and game hunters, though it is typically no more (perhaps less) persecuted than other carnivores that pose more threat to livestock. Most of Africa’s national parks are too small for a pack of wild dogs, so the packs expand to the unprotected areas, which tend to be ranch or farm land. Ranchers and farmers protect their domestic animals by killing the wild dogs. Like other carnivores, the African Wild Dog is sometimes affected by outbreaks of viral diseases such as rabies, distemper, and parvovirus. Although these diseases are not more pathogenic or virulent for wild dogs, the small size of most wild dog populations makes them vulnerable to local extinction due to diseases or other problems. “African Hunting Dog …....” was featured in Indigenous to East & Southern Africa Group. “African Hunting Dog …....” was featured in phoDOGraphy
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Wildebeest running across the Tanzanian Savannah at Sunset in the Serengheti National Park
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Wildebeest, Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve / KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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