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Mär 21
2012
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THE GARDENERS OF THE SAVANAHPosted by: ranger in SBT - Daily Game Reports on Mär 21, 2012 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date:21st march 2012
THE “GARDENERS” OF THE SAVANNAH.
Normally the giraffe’s height enables them to command an extensive view of the plains and the bushlands, their height also enables them to browse on the higher levels of the trees and bushes up to a certain level where they can no longer browse. It is for this reason that many of the trees of the Serengeti have got a browse-line at the bottom forming some umbrella shape. This has led to the giraffes being nicknamed the “gardeners of the savannah”. On this particular day we found a male giraffe standing in the shade next to a “Balanite” tree motionless as if in deep thoughts.
| 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 | 25 |
40 |
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65 | ||||
| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 40 |
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40 | ||||
| Bat-eared Fox |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 200 |
300 |
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500 | ||||
| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 50 |
20 |
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70 | ||||
| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Coke’s Hartebeest |
15 |
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15 | |||||
| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 20 |
20 |
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40 | ||||
| Dwarf Mongoose | 15 |
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15 | ||||
| Eland |
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| Grant’s Gazelle |
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| Hippopotamus | 500 |
500 |
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1000 | ||||
| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 50 |
200 |
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250 | ||||
| Kirk’s Dik Dik |
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| Klipspringer | 30 |
40 |
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70 | ||||
| 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 | 5 |
2 |
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7 | ||||
| Maasai Giraffe | 15 |
20 |
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35 | ||||
| Olive Baboon | 30 |
10 |
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40 | ||||
| Oribi | 5 |
20 |
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25 | ||||
| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie | 20 |
10 |
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30 | ||||
| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 2 |
2 |
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4 | ||||
| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 8 |
10 |
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18 | ||||
| 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 |
150 |
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350 | ||||
| Topi | 100 |
300 |
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400 | ||||
| Vervet Monkey | 10 |
20 |
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30 | ||||
| Warthog | 6 |
8 |
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14 | ||||
| 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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