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Jun 06
2012
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HIPPO ON ITS TRAILPosted by: ranger in SBT - Daily Game Reports on Jun 6, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 6TH JUNE 2012
Hippo on its trail.
On an early morning game drive, ranger Jaffery came upon a male hippo that had been forced out of water by its rival. It had ventured into a foreign territory and did not show submissiveness towards the dominant male of the pool. The territorial male opened its mouth and showed his formidable teeth while approaching him, but he turned back and ran out of the water with the territorial male in hot pursuit. The territorial male decided to keep guard for a while onto the trail leading to his pool so that the intruder didn’t come back.
| Animals sighted | Rangers | Kokan | Deus | Gordon | Jaffery | Birdi | Other | Total |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 10 | 12 |
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22 | |||
| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose |
20 |
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20 | |||||
| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest |
200 |
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200 | |||||
| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 100 |
30 |
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130 | ||||
| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 200 |
300 |
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500 | ||||
| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 40 |
20 |
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60 | ||||
| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 25 |
50 |
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75 | ||||
| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland |
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| Grant’s Gazelle |
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| Hippopotamus | 300 | 20 |
100 |
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420 | |||
| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 150 |
200 |
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350 | ||||
| Kirk’s Dik Dik |
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| Klipspringer | 2 |
4 |
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6 | ||||
| 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 | 4 |
6 |
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10 | ||||
| Maasai Giraffe | 5 |
25 |
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30 | ||||
| Olive Baboon | 40 |
20 |
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60 | ||||
| Oribi | 6 | 2 |
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8 | |||
| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie | 4 | 6 |
2 |
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12 | |||
| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 4 |
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4 | ||||
| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena |
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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 |
20 |
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60 | ||||
| Topi |
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| Vervet Monkey |
12 |
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12 | |||||
| Warthog |
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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


