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Aug 06
2012
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A dusty crossing....Posted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Aug 6, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 06.08.2012
The wildebeest migration has spread all over Masai mara with majority of the gnus hanging around Talek river.
Peter, Japheth and their guests were on a half-day game drive and within the few first minutes of their drive they came across two male lions feeding on a buffalo carcass. As they were proceeding down towards Talek river they came across thousands of wildebeest. A huge herd was gathering on the river bank and within afew minutes they started crossing causing a huge cloud of dust.
| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth |
Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand |
Alex |
Martin |
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| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 40 |
55 |
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30 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 30 |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 4 |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 160 | 50,000 |
55,000 |
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60 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra |
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| Bushbuck | 6 |
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| Cape Buffalo | 14 | 500 |
400 |
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100 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 14 | 40 |
25 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck |
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| Dwarf Mongoose | 26 |
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| Eland | 46 | 60 |
35 |
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20 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 8 | 20 |
15 |
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| Hippopotamus | 30 |
30 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 198 | 300 |
280 |
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100 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 37 | 6 |
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| Klipspringer |
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| Large-spotted Genet |
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| Leopard |
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| Lesser Bushbaby |
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| Lesser Kudu |
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| Lion | 5 |
3 |
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4 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 24 | 16 |
12 |
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10 |
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| Olive Baboon | 30 |
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| Oribi |
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| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie |
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| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 4 | 6 |
2 |
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2 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 8 | 10 |
7 |
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4 |
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| Squirrel |
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| Steenbok |
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| Striped Hyena |
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| Striped Pole Cat/Zorilla |
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| Thick-tailed Bushbaby |
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| Thompson’s Gazelle | 60 | 300 |
250 |
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120 |
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| Topi | 16 | 160 |
45 |
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70 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 13 | 20 |
15 |
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10 |
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| Water Mongoose |
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| White-tailed Mongoose |
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| Wild Dog |
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NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers
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