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Dec 25
2011
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X-mass comes once a year even for lionsPosted by: ranger in MBT - Daily Game Reports on Dec 25, 2011 Tagged in: Bushtops Daily Game Reports
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Reporting Date: 25.12.2011
As we celebrate Christmas everyone eats their best meals, dresses in their best clothes and even better others go for holiday in their best holiday spots. Not for the lions whom we sighted in the reserve especially now when food is scarse. They looked feeble and hungry. They must have stayed without food for some days. They wished they could enjoy a meal like we all do right now. Inspite of their predicament, they are still beautiful to our eyes.
For the lions, their x-mass comes at the time of the Great Migration between July and October. During this period, lions like other cats feast endlessly. But when the wildebeests are gone they struggle to get a meal and some even starve to death as food becomes scarse.
| Animals sighted | Scouts | Charles | Japeth | Daniel |
Peter |
Ferdinand | Philip |
Alex |
Total |
| Aardvark |
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| Aardwolf |
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| African Civet |
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| African Elephant | 41 | 20 | 30 |
50 |
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23 |
20 |
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| African Wild cat |
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| Banded mongoose |
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| Bat-eared Fox | 2 |
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| Black Rhinoceros |
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| Blue Wilderbeest | 2 | 15 |
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1 |
20 |
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| Bohor Reedbuck |
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| Burchell’s Zebra | 14 | 6 | 18 |
10 |
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15 |
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| Bushbuck | 1 |
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| Cape Buffalo | 200 | 80 | 400 |
250 |
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153 |
150 |
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| Cape Clawless Otter |
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| Caracal |
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| Cheetah | 2 | 2 |
2 |
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2 |
2 |
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| Coke’s Hartebeest | 3 | 10 |
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10 |
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| Common Genet |
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| Common/Golden Jackal |
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| Defassa Waterbuck |
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2 |
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| Dwarf Mongoose |
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10 |
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| Eland | 14 | 10 |
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15 |
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| Grant’s Gazelle | 17 | 2 | 8 |
12 |
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14 |
10 |
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| Hippopotamus | 28 | 20 |
20 |
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15 |
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| Honey Bager/Ratel |
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| Impala | 250 | 150 | 200 |
80 |
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120 |
200 |
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| Kirk’s Dik Dik | 8 | 4 | 10 |
8 |
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8 |
6 |
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| Klipspringer |
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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 | 17 | 12 | 8 |
20 |
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23 |
15 |
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| Maasai Giraffe | 8 | 14 |
10 |
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14 |
10 |
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| Olive Baboon | 60 |
40 |
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60 |
30 |
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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 | 2 |
2 |
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4 |
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| Slender Mongoose |
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| Small-spotted Genet |
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| Spotted Hyena | 2 |
1 |
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1 |
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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 | 150 | 100 | 250 |
50 |
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30 |
150 |
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| Topi | 60 | 80 | 80 |
70 |
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17 |
60 |
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| Vervet Monkey |
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| Warthog | 15 | 10 | 8 |
12 |
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30 |
10 |
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| 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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