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Jul 07
2012
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Intruder chased offPosted by: ranger in SBT - Daily Game Reports on Jul 7, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 7th July 2012
Intruder chased off.
It was in the morning hours when we saw a hippo being chased away by another. It was a territorial male chasing away an intruder from his area of residence. At first from a distance as we approached, we saw both the intruder and the territory owner showing their formidable teeth at each other but they did not fight as the intruder gave up when the dominant male roared aggressively at him. Normally male hippos defend particular areas of water in the rivers from other males and fierce fights would erupt if the intruder does not become submissive.
| 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 | 4 | 25 |
50 |
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79 | |||
| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose |
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| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Blue Wilderbeest | 1000 | 10 |
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1010 | |||
| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 10,000 | 10000 |
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20,000 | |||
| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 3 | 1000 |
500 |
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1503 | |||
| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Coke’s Hartebeest | 45 |
50 |
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95 | ||||
| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 20 |
20 |
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40 | ||||
| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland | 40 | 20 |
100 |
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160 | |||
| Grant’s Gazelle |
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| Hippopotamus | 200 | 50 |
100 |
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350 | |||
| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 20 | 100 |
150 |
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270 | |||
| Kirk’s Dik Dik |
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| Klipspringer | 10 | 5 |
4 |
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19 | |||
| Large-spotted Genet |
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| Leopard | 1 | 1 |
1 |
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3 | |||
| Lesser Bushbaby |
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| Lesser Kudu |
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| Lion | 6 | 2 |
4 |
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12 | |||
| Maasai Giraffe | 10 | 20 |
15 |
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45 | |||
| Olive Baboon | 50 |
10 |
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60 | ||||
| Oribi | 2 |
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| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie | 10 | 12 |
5 |
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27 | |||
| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 4 | 5 |
6 |
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15 | |||
| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 2 |
5 |
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7 | ||||
| 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 | 300 | 200 |
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20 |
520 | |||
| Topi | 100 | 40 |
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200 |
340 | |||
| Vervet Monkey | 8 |
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8 | ||||
| Warthog | 4 | 2 |
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6 |
12 | |||
| 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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