Zebras make  good subjectas for photography & a fine meal for a lion. Zebras can defend themselves by viscous bites and razor sharp hooves.

Bright eyed

Elephants really enjoy froliking in water especially on hot and humid days. Elephants can swim remarkable well using their trunks as periscopes if needed.

Just Chilling

Elephants enjoy a good dust coating, this predominantly protects the hide from insects. They pick the soil up with their trunk after using a foot to push the sand onto it. Sand pits are frequented as most of the herd use the same pit.

Dust bath

As domesticated as they look, hyhenas are very dangerous animals. Capable of crushing bones with strong jaws, hyhena provide a necessary function in the wild. Predominantly scavengers, it is however not beyond hyhenas to hunt small or injured game. The ongoing feud between lions and hyhenas is an indicator of the tennaciousness of these animals.

Hyhena not your average dog

Nduna – the second largest Tusker in Southern Africa. A magnificent large bodied elephant bull that resides at the Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa. Nduna has his askaris (younger bull followers) which he mentors and keeps in check. A truly beautiful elephant with a huge set of tusks.

He frequents the Mashelesela water hole where our webcam is situated  – the best viewing times are between 10:00 – 14:00 local South African time.

Large Tusker

A fully grown croc averages in length of 4-5 meters. Exceptionally large animals get to 6 meters and can weigh in excess of 1000Kg. Crocs are opportunistic hunters and clean waterways from carrion. Crocs are masters of camouflage and will surprise a drinking animal by a lightening attack. The animal is often dragged into the water and drowns. Other crocs often feed from a caught animal. Biting into the flesh and spinning their bodies to tear off the meat. Crocs are capable of crossing vast tracts of land in search of a waterway lake or dam.

This image was taken by Peet Janse van Rensburg.

Deadly encounter

The Rain bird, as its colloquilly termed, is a beatiful bird of approx 40cm in length, They have red eyes and brown throats. Found close to the ground they forage on small animals and insects.

The sound of their call, is a beautiful liquid gurgle rising and falling like water pouring from a bottle.

Differentiating between black & white rhino is relatively easy when you compare the two next to each other. The white rhino is physically larger than the black rhino. The easiest tell tale is the shape of the mouth. The white rhino had a broad wide lip. This is used to eat grass and when one sees a white rhino it is inevitably eating – head down. The black rhino is a leaf eater, the shape of the mouth/lip differs in that it is narrow. There is not a different in colour viz black and white. Rhinos are a dull to dark grey in colour and often are the colour of the surrounding soil, due to the mud baths and sand rolling.

Black rhino are by far the more aggressive of the two. The eyesight is not very good and will likely charge first if it feels threatened in anyway.Rhinos are nimble on their feet despite their size and can easily outrun a human.

Narrow Lip

Broad Lip