It must be tough to be a young elephant bull watching as your larger companions effortlessly reach into the branches of Tamarind, Winterthorn and Acacia trees. We watched this pair of bulls as they gently made their way from the grasslands back towards the river [...]
It's been a while since I updated my blog, but it doesn't mean it's been quiet in the National Park. We spent a lovely morning watching a small herd of giraffes in an open dambo recently. The youngsters were quietly sitting on the ground, legs [...]
In failing light, we found this beautiful leopard cub resting in a tree last night. She was escaping the flies and enjoying the cool breeze of evening. After some time, she came down and began hunting a couple of Spur Winged Geese which had landed [...]
Bateleur eagles are one of the most readily recognisable of all our raptors, identifiable at a glance by their rocking, unstable flight. Having a very short tail makes them highly maneuverable, but reduces their stability in the air, leading to a flight pattern that appears [...]
We don't have names for many of the animals here (in fact it's only one leopard and a few lions). But Alice is probably the most well known of all of them. She's an adult female leopard who's marked out an area of territory just [...]
.....it's all just a bit too much for a young baboon. One of the best reference books on baboon behaviour was written by a well-known animal scientist called Shirley Strum. After years living with Olive baboons in Kenya, she compiled her findings into a very [...]
When the river's very high, as it has been over the last couple of weeks, we can get out in the boat and enjoy a beautiful, water-level view of the Luangwa. As we floated downstream, we passed pods of hippos on all sides and watched [...]
See UPDATE below. I was out driving yesterday and came across a group of zebras feeding in the long grasses just by the road. One male was separate from the rest of the herd and revealed, as he turned towards us, a dreadful wound on [...]
A while ago I did a photo workshop for Chipembele Wildlife Education Centre to support their "Luangwa through the eyes of the kids of Mfuwe" project. Children are lent a camera for a couple of days, and encouraged to photograph whatever appeals to them. It's [...]
This lovely small family of elephants appeared in the road ahead of us as we were driving slowly along. They seemed agitated to be exposed on the road, so bunched together as a tight group. After a short time, they relaxed and began to show [...]
