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Jul 03
2012
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Lets get dirty...Posted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Jul 3, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 02.07.2012
Peter and his guests were having a good fullday game-drive with lots of plains game relaxing by the road side where the grass is a little shorter. At around noon the mara heat had forced most of the game to seek shade or go down to water holes. While driving along a lugga Peter came across a herd of elephant wallowing in the mud and they noticed one of the young ellys trying to cover its whole body with mud by rolling over and over.
Elephants wallow in the mud to cool off and protect their skin from being damaged by the sun.
| 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 | 12 | 2 |
23 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 20 |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 4 |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 135 | 4 |
75 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 110 | 18 |
55 |
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| Bushbuck | 2 |
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| Cape Buffalo | 18 | 120 |
15 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 17 | 23 |
30 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck |
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| Dwarf Mongoose | 23 |
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| Eland | 16 |
35 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 12 | 8 |
12 |
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| Hippopotamus | 20 |
34 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 700 | 160 |
230 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 14 | 7 |
6 |
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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 | 6 |
10 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 7 | 12 |
8 |
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| Olive Baboon | 45 |
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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 | 4 | 2 |
2 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 4 | 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 | 45 | 25 |
60 |
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| Topi | 12 | 15 |
40 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 3 | 7 |
14 |
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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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