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Jan 10
2012
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Baby Elephant learning......Posted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Jan 10, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 10/01/2012
Elephants are social and intelligent parchyderms. The young ones are born and learn from the cow and the rest of the family's survival techniques. The young ones after birth have to wait for 6 months before starting to use the trunk otherwise, they whirl it at anything moving around it including butterflies, birds etc.
Daniel and his guests while on a gamedrive came across a cow a youngone nearly 4 months old playing around with its trunk.
| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth | Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand | Philip |
Alex |
Total |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 40 |
35 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 10 |
15 |
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| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest |
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48 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck | 2 |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 30 |
12 |
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5 |
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| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 450 |
500 |
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18 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 2 |
2 |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 8 |
22 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 4 |
2 |
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| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 10 |
12 |
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6 |
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| Hippopotamus |
24 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 200 |
150 |
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230 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 10 |
4 |
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10 |
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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 | 11 |
18 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 22 |
30 |
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10 |
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| Olive Baboon | 25 |
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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 | 2 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena |
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3 |
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| Squirrel |
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| Steenbok | 2 |
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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 | 300 |
110 |
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5 |
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| Topi | 30 |
95 |
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11 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 8 |
20 |
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1 |
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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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