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Jan 25
2012
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Mother hyena suckles two cubsPosted by: ranger in SBT - Daily Game Reports on Jan 25, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 23rd January 2012
Very rarely would people come across a mother hyena in the open field suckling her off-springs as it happens with the cats. But on this day, ranger Godson and his guests were attracted to this hyena mother suckling her two babies which were about six months old. The two babies were enjoying the mother’s milk in the heat of the day in the grass as she lay down on her side. Hyenas milk is very nutritious and is the cause of the development of the strong jaw- bones that they have. When young, they have prominent spots on their bodies which disappear as they grow older.
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| 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 | 50 |
30 |
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80 | ||||
| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 50 |
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50 | ||||
| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 100 | 200 |
500 |
500 |
1300 | |||
| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 1500 | 2000 |
1000 |
2000 |
6500 | |||
| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 200 | 10 |
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210 | |||
| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Coke’s Hartebeest |
25 |
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25 | |||||
| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 10 | 10 |
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20 | |||
| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland | 100 | 200 |
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200 |
500 | |||
| Grant’s Gazelle |
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| Hippopotamus | 300 | 200 |
100 |
100 |
700 | |||
| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 200 | 100 |
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500 |
800 | |||
| Kirk’s Dik Dik |
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| Klipspringer | 3 | 2 |
5 |
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10 | |||
| 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 | 3 | 2 |
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5 |
10 | |||
| Maasai Giraffe | 6 | 10 |
4 |
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20 | |||
| Olive Baboon | 10 |
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10 | ||||
| Oribi | 2 |
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2 | ||||
| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie | 15 | 5 |
20 |
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40 | |||
| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal |
2 |
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2 | |||||
| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 10 | 2 |
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4 |
16 | |||
| Squirrel |
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| Steenbok |
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| Striped Hyena |
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| Thick-tailed Bushbaby |
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| Thompson’s Gazelle |
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| Topi | 1000 | 500 |
100 |
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1600 | |||
| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 6 | 4 |
10 |
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20 | |||
| 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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