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May 31
2012
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Getting rid of bugsPosted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on May 31, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 31.5.2012
The elephants bieng the largest of the mammals in the savannah are not spared by the bugs. They have developed a habit of wallowing and this is for cooling and later on plastering themselves with mud. Once this is done the elephants know their favourite points to go and scratch. This is mostly important in getting rid of the bugs and if you observe very keenly this points you will notice dead bugs as a result of this. Daniel and the guests came across this elephant and were imppressed by the bum scratching.
| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth |
Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand |
Alex |
Martin |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 40 |
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50 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 27 |
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20 |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 8 |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 70 | 16 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 300 | 20 |
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5 |
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| Bushbuck | 13 |
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| Cape Buffalo | 10 | 300 |
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200 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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2 |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 17 | 20 |
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10 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 3 |
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| Dwarf Mongoose | 39 |
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| Eland | 20 |
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20 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 3 | 7 |
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15 |
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| Hippopotamus |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 400 | 250 |
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150 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 30 | 4 |
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4 |
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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 | 1 |
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10 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 2 | 6 |
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1 |
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| Olive Baboon | 40 | 14 |
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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 | 8 | 2 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 3 | 1 |
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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 | 40 | 50 |
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50 |
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| Topi | 31 | 18 |
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70 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 13 | 10 |
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50 |
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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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