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oct. 19
2012
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A snake for breakfast!!!Posted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Oct 19, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 18.10.2012
It was during an early morning game-drive when ranger Peter and his guests came across a secretary bird busy having its morning meal. The secretary bird kept on plucking off bit by bit of the prey making it difficult to see what it was feeding on. A short while later the secretary bird carried the prey high up and started swallowing it.
Secretary bird also known as the hunting bird spend most of their day walking in the grass fields looking for prey like mice but aslo tackle snakes very well when they come across them.
| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth |
Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand |
Alex |
John |
Total |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 10 |
30 |
60 |
100 |
40 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 40 |
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45 |
60 |
50 |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 2 |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 50 |
3,000 |
20,000 |
23,000 |
25,000 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 50 |
900 |
1000 |
5000 |
8000 |
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| Bushbuck | 14 |
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| Cape Buffalo | 20 |
250 |
1200 |
2000 |
800 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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2 |
2 |
2 |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 30 |
20 |
50 |
20 |
16 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck |
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12 |
10 |
6 |
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| Dwarf Mongoose | 25 |
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| Eland | 20 |
15 |
250 |
100 |
80 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 20 |
8 |
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10 |
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| Hippopotamus |
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80 |
20 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 400 |
100 |
450 |
300 |
250 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 25 |
8 |
8 |
10 |
8 |
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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 | 6 |
4 |
22 |
15 |
12 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 25 |
25 |
50 |
10 |
30 |
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| Olive Baboon | 20 |
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45 |
20 |
15 |
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| Oribi |
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| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine | 6 |
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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 | 15 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
6 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 10 |
4 |
9 |
2 |
12 |
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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 | 25 |
70 |
20 |
100 |
150 |
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| Topi | 40 |
40 |
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10 |
70 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 40 |
15 |
14 |
20 |
26 |
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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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