Gharagab and Surrounds

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Re: Flavour of the Month - July 2014 - Gharagab and Surround

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I'll stick with scenery photos for one more post...

From the look out tower:
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Look out tower to unit 2 where we were staying at:
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Unit 2 to waterhole:
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All in March 2013.


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Re: Flavour of the Month - July 2014 - Gharagab and Surround

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Sorry, Gump... -O-

We got to experience two very different sunrises:

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Re: Flavour of the Month - July 2014 - Gharagab and Surround

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Thanks General Gump. Love your pics Mel \O

As I have mentioned earlier, the water level must be right to get the reflections. The level was low on our second trip to Gharagab.

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One afternoon we were sitting on the deck when this PCG landed near the waterhole so we thought he will make his way to the waterhole for a drink

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Suddenly he flew over the waterhole at great speed and caught a dove :shock:

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Another PCG flew in hoping to get a share

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Catch your own dove mate. The PCG flew off and landed in a tree to enjoy the meal

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Re: Flavour of the Month - July 2014 - Gharagab and Surround

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At Gharagab Dam - which was dry in March 2013...

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Fltterby, nan, Mel, mposthumus \O

The best known research project carried out in the Kalahari Gemsbok has been the University of Pretoria's study of the Kalahari lion- not a different species from the lion of Kruger Park and elsewhere, but certainly adapted to very different conditions.
The researchers found that the Kalahari lion may be expected to kill 47 animals a year- more than three times as many as its counterpart in the Kruger Park- even though the prey is scarcer in the Kalahari, and the terrain makes it more difficult to catch.
As the researchers discovered, the disparity is a matter of scale. As much as 50% of the Kalahari lion's kill is made up of small mammals, whereas in the Kruger Park the proportion is only 1%. Given the opportunity, a Kalahari lion prefers to dine on ambitious fare such as gemsbok, blue wildebeest or red hartebeest. Sometimes, however, it is reduced to eating springhares, bat-eared foxes and porcupines merely to stay alive (porcupines represent one-quarter of their prey.)

Reference: Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Game Parks & Nature Reserves of Southern Africa.

At Dankbaar we found this male

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and this guy waiting patiently licking his lips

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The quills are barbed so do not fall off and wounds do become septic.

This guy seemed unaffected with the quill lodged in his cheek

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I'm amazed that that guy would take to killing porcupines. He looks well fed and
seems to be part of a supporting pride. So why the need to feed on porcupines...

Very interesting read, Sharifa. Had seen something similar somewhere else and
remember that I thought "And the Kalahari lions still look healthier than their
Kruger counterparts" despite their diet being half made up of small critters.


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Flutterby wrote:Would have thought that the Kalahari lions would have smaller manes to adapt to the heat. :-?
except that it gets to minus 12 in Winter Brrrrrr :-)


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Re: Flavour of the Month - July 2014 - Gharagab and Surround

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we have not seen that much but here are some of our pictures.

the road

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