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Prior to going to Africa, I had Amber’s blessing to buy a 300 mm zoom lens for my camera. Oh, I wish I had made a better effort to actually go and buy it. Anyway, I got these shots of animals in the iMfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa. Thanks to the Waldron family for taking me along!!<\/p>\n


\nelephants – didn’t see many, and all from a distance<\/p>\n


\ngiraffes – very fun to watch in herds<\/p>\n

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\nbaby zebra – note that it isn’t “zee-braw,” but rather “zeb-raw”<\/p>\n

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\nwhite rhinoceros – we saw a total of 32 of these, often on the road, so we had to turn around in this instance, we didn’t see any of the rarer black rhinos<\/p>\n

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\nleopard – cool sighting since it is rare to spot during the day, not sleeping<\/p>\n


\nleopard tortoise – it was moving<\/p>\n


\ncape glossy starling – very pretty<\/p>\n


\nwarthog – lots of these in groups, they kneel when they eat and their tails go up when they move, like a flag on an a banana bike<\/p>\n


\nbaby warthogs<\/p>\n


\nguinea fowl<\/p>\n


\nvervet monkey – they are like squirrels<\/p>\n


\nwildebeest – among my favourites, so wild looking<\/p>\n

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\ncape buffalo – this one was super old and haggard looking<\/p>\n

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\ndung beetle – very fun to see it working<\/p>\n


\nimpala – very prolific<\/p>\n


\nbaboons – a family with red butts<\/p>\n


\nshowdown – cape buffalo vs. white rhino, the rhino backed down<\/p>\n


\nnyala – this is a female, the males are darker and have long horns<\/p>\n

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Prior to going to Africa, I had Amber’s blessing to buy a 300 mm zoom lens for my camera. Oh, I wish I had made a better effort to actually go and buy it. Anyway, I got these shots of animals in the iMfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa. Thanks to the Waldron family for … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-82","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-nature","9":"category-travel","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}