Africa Wild

Oh yummy . . . Thanks very much Klipspringer. Looks like we shall not be booking into the tented camp!

Not sure if I'm in the right place here, apologies if not. Can anyone comment on the condition of the tents in the tented camp at Mpila? The last few times we stayed in one there were an increasing number of problems such as torn zips, gas stoves with blocked gas feeds, broken and dangerous steps ...

OK thanks Peter and Sprocky. I think the mystery may have been solved - an antelope (think a puff-adder is more of a hiss than this) - or may remain unsolved until I hear it again and can record it . . . .

If it sounds like an Impala then its a leopard ...same sound ..or it could be an Impala ..Either one sounds the same ..sawing wood sound of the leopard and the rutting grate of an Impala ram ..Indistinguishable to the untrained ear Thanks Peter Betts. It wasn't a sawing wood sound. It sounded like ...

Oookaaaay . . . . literature or the ratels?

Richprins wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:53 am I would guess ratel then!

It seems possible, but none of the literature mentions this sound.

@ klipspringer - thanks. it was none of those. In tone perhaps closest to impala but shorter, sharper. @Richardprins - well I cant say exactly but somewhere between midnight and 03.00 . . . . @Peter Betts - oh shoot! You mean mozzies exhale as well as whine? And don't tell me its only when they ...

Sorry if this is the wrong place to pose this question . . . . I have just spent a few nights in iMfolozi, staying in the tented camp. I was woken one night by quite loud, short, sharp ?exhalations close to our tent. The sort of sound you might make if a fly flew into your face and you blew it ...

Thanks RP

Richprins wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:22 pm Found out the map is inaccurate!

So where is it?