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oct. 25
2011
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MARTIAL EAGLE KILLS BABY WARTHOGPosted by: ranger in SBT - Daily Game Reports on Oct 25, 2011 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 25TH 0CTOBER 2011
Ranger Godson and Gordon had just picked their guests from Kogatende airstrip in the afternoon and were doing a game drive enroute to the camp when they came across a martial eagle that had pinned down a very young warthog on the ground. It had stepped on its neck firmly with one leg and tearing with the other. The warthog was still struggling to free itself from the tight grip but it was all in vain. The mother and ran away into the bush with the other youngsters as the master of the air struck. At the moment there are lots of baby warthogs and most of the time they are seen running after their mothers in the open bush-lands with their tails held up. They have a lot of predators as a few days ago, we had seen cheetahs trying to hunt them although unsuccessfully. Today it was the
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| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth |
Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand | Philip |
Alex |
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| Cape Buffalo |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest |
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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 |
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| Impala |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Spotted Hyena |
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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 |
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| Topi |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog |
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| Wild Dog |
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NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers
martial eagle which unfortunately did not eat the baby warthog after killing but simply flew away.
| 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 | 100 | 50 |
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50 |
200 | |||
| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 50 | 50 |
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100 |
200 | |||
| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 10,000 |
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20,000 |
30,000 | ||||
| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 2000 | 1000 |
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1000 |
4000 | |||
| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 1000 | 500 |
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500 |
2000 | |||
| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 3 |
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3 |
6 | ||||
| Coke’s Hartebeest | 200 | 200 |
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300 |
700 | |||
| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 50 |
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50 | ||||
| Dwarf Mongoose |
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5 |
5 | |||||
| Eland | 400 |
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200 |
600 | ||||
| Grant’s Gazelle |
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| Hippopotamus | 200 | 100 |
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400 |
700 | |||
| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 100 | 400 |
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200 |
700 | |||
| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 2 |
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2 | ||||
| Klipspringer | 20 | 10 |
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20 |
50 | |||
| 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 | 10 | 5 |
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12 |
27 | |||
| Maasai Giraffe | 100 | 50 |
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50 |
200 | |||
| Olive Baboon |
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| Oribi | 10 | 5 |
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5 |
20 | |||
| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie | 20 | 20 |
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10 |
50 | |||
| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 2 |
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2 |
4 | ||||
| Slender Mongoose | 4 | 2 |
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6 | |||
| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 2 |
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10 |
12 | ||||
| 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 | 200 | 500 |
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1000 |
1700 | |||
| Topi | 500 | 1000 |
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1000 |
2500 | |||
| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 100 | 30 |
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50 |
180 | |||
| 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


