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Mar 16
2012
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Sniffing out the intruder....Posted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Mar 16, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 16/03/2012.
The Mara plains are looking nice and lush after about two weeks of rainfall. Ferdinand and his guests were on an early morning gamedrive when one of his guests shouted 'look lion'! Everyone was excited and Ferdinand drove towards the handsome looking lion. After watching him for a while they noticed he kept sniffing on the ground and looking around. It seemed he had picked up a scent of an intruder. The lion kept roaming around but did not seem to find anything at that particular moment.
Lions are very territorial and will not allow other lions who are strangers to roam around in their territory. Once an intruder is found the dominant lion can get very aggresive and fight the intruder to death.
| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth | Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand |
Alex |
Martin |
Total |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 100 |
20 |
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80 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose |
18 |
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12 |
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| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros | 1 |
1 |
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| Blue Wilderbeest |
12 |
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60 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck | 1 |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 50 |
55 |
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40 |
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| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 1000 |
250 |
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100 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 3 |
3 |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 10 |
15 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck |
2 |
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16 |
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| Dwarf Mongoose |
8 |
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20 |
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| Eland |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 10 |
12 |
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| Hippopotamus | 30 |
32 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 150 |
60 |
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100 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik |
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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 |
7 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 15 |
15 |
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2 |
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| Olive Baboon |
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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 | 1 |
1 |
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2 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena |
2 |
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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 | 140 |
25 |
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30 |
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| Topi | 200 |
70 |
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40 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 10 |
14 |
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16 |
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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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