.....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 [...]
It's an easy sound to miss, but if you stop and listen carefully, you'll always hear the "tink...tink...tink...tink" of a Lesser Honeyguide calling from a favourite tree-top perch. Fairly drab to look at, the Honeyguides are a group of birds which are famous for leading [...]
Beautiful evening sky this evening as a group of Cattle Egrets flew past me, lit up as a golden splash against the blue-grey sky.
After a long night of heavy rain, we found this Slender Mongoose sunbathing on a log at the side of the road. Instead of heading for the nearest thicket with its tail high in the air, this one just continued to bask in the sunshine. [...]
We were out yesterday and heard baboons shouting loudly while I was watching a couple of storks feeding. I drove on to see what was bothering them, knowing that the alarm call they were making was to warn of a leopard. As we drove up, [...]
I found this huge Golden Orb Spider or Golden Orb Weaver out in the park yesterday. It had built a huge orb web, stretching about 5m across and about 3m tall. The spider itself was over 15cms long and was sitting, alert, at the middle [...]
