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Aug 29
2012
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Crossing Mara riverPosted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Aug 29, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 28.8.2012
Daniel left on full day game drive with two guests and the mission was to camp at the bank of Mara river for the entire day to chance a river crossing. Arriving at the river bank the wildbeest were scattered allover and didnt show any signs of crossing. After serving lunch under an acacia tree Daniel saw wildbeest move one by one and slowly build into a big herd. After some time they started running into two different crossing point and at the bank they seemed scared and had to wait for more than an hour before one carageous led the entire herd into a massive crossing.
| 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 | 17 | 40 |
18 |
40 |
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28 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 16 | 10 |
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32 |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 2 |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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1 |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 50000 | 200000 |
2500 |
2000 |
100000 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 5000 | 5000 |
500 |
200 |
6000 |
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| Bushbuck | 1 |
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| Cape Buffalo | 200 | 400 |
250 |
100 |
400 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 2 | 5 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 14 | 30 |
20 |
15 |
18 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 2 |
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| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland | 28 | 40 |
8 |
150 |
22 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 21 | 7 |
25 |
34 |
10 |
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| Hippopotamus | 33 |
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58 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 250 | 200 |
150 |
400 |
230 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 8 | 6 |
4 |
2 |
6 |
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| Klipspringer |
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| Large-spotted Genet |
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| Leopard |
1 |
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| Lesser Bushbaby |
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| Lesser Kudu |
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| Lion | 15 | 10 |
2 |
15 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 17 | 25 |
12 |
20 |
21 |
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| Olive Baboon |
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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 | 2 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 22 | 2 |
10 |
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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 | 150 | 100 |
55 |
100 |
250 |
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| Topi | 200 | 50 |
40 |
120 |
30 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 20 | 10 |
4 |
4 |
24 |
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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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