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Jan 21
2013
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TOWER OF GIRRAFEPosted by: ranger in SBT - Daily Game Reports on Jan 21, 2013 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 21.01.2013
Kokan on a Morning game drive approached the Wood land and saw a big male Giraffe feeding on the Acacia leaves making it look like a tower. His guests got so interested especially in seeing the giraffes long black eyelashes which made it look magnificent and its long prehensile tongue which was constantly sliding between the prickles feeding so sustainably without breaking the acacia braches.
Giraffes are known to leave for about 25 years and have a gestation period of 15 months. A full grownup male can weigh to about 1,600kg and have a height of 6m .Adults are not vulnerable to predators but only when drinking water which they do once a week.
| 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 | 290 | 100 | 32 |
41 |
200 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose | 21 | 12 | 10 | 11 |
16 |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 1 | 1 |
1 |
2 |
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| Black Rhinoceros | 1 | 1 |
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3 |
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| Wilderbeest | 43 | 66 | 45 |
32 |
10 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck | 1 | 2 |
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2 |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 120 | 21 | 33 |
193 |
100 |
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| Bushbuck |
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| Cape Buffalo | 12O | 421 | 44 |
31 |
20 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 1 | 2 |
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1 |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 3 | 4 |
7 |
6 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck | 2 | 2 |
4 |
7 |
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| Dwarf Mongoose |
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| Eland | 21 | 32 | 33 |
27 |
22 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 2 | 1 |
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1 |
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| Hippopotamus | 201 | 50 | 421 |
40 |
51 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 23 | 76 | 24 |
67 |
12 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 1 | 1 |
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2 |
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| Klipspringer | 3 | 5 |
8 |
3 |
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| Large-spotted Genet |
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| Leopard | 1 | 1 |
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1 |
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| Lesser Bushbaby |
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| Lesser Kudu |
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| Lion | 22 | 32 | 17 |
21 |
13 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 34 | 45 | 21 |
7 |
22 |
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| Olive Baboon | 19 | 18 | 15 |
32 |
45 |
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| Oribi | 2 | 4 | 1 |
6 |
3 |
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| Pangolin |
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| Patas Monkey |
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| Porcupine |
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| Rock Hyrax/Dassie | 12 | 11 | 10 |
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21 |
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| Serval |
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| Side-striped Jackal |
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| Silver-backed Jackal | 2 | 1 |
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3 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 8 | 6 | 17 |
12 |
21 |
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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 | 134 | 32 | 55 |
78 |
43 |
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| Topi | 32 | 90 | 89 |
58 |
65 |
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| Vervet Monkey | 12 | 32 | 5 |
5 |
5 |
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| Warthog | 9 | 3 | 5 |
5 |
7 |
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| Water Mongoose |
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| White-tailed Mongoose | 2 | 1 |
1 |
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| Wild Dog |
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NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers
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