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Self Drive Safari (Uganda)

youtu.be — If you ever need a 4x4 for your Uganda trip, be sure to contact RoadTrip Uganda. The company takes the lead in servicing Uganda and the neighboring countries through its comprehensive Self Drive Car & Camp at very competitive rates....

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Scientists Use Solar Power to Study Elephants in Africa

phys.org — A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight. The seasonal solar-powered research camp gives scientists a rare opportunity to quietly observe, videotape and photograph wild elephants at Mushara waterhole, an isolated oasis in Etosha National Park in Namibia....
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Orphaned Baby Elephant Raised by Human “Mother” in Malawi

washingtonpost.com — Lots of mothers wake in the middle of the night to feed their babies, but not many get up to give a bottle to an infant elephant....
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First Ever Video of Elusive West African Seahorse

zsl.org — Footage of a little known species of seahorse has been released for the first time today by researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)....
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South Africa Protects Rhinos – While the Lions Die

guardian.co.uk — South Africa's lions are down to the last few prides, with just 2,000 living in the wild. But the failure to curb the nascent but burgeoning trade in lion bones could see this drop even further....
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The Riot Over Rhinos

news.mongabay.com — The steep increase in rhino poaching in Africa, and especially South Africa, is due to a growing demand for the commodity in Vietnam, a nation whose economy, and affluence, is on the rise....
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The Moment an Eagle Snatches a Crocodile

telegraph.co.uk — A baby crocodile, which when fully grown would expect to be top of the food chain, has become lunch for a hungry bird....
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Why are We Eating Bonobos?

newswatch.nationalgeographic.com — Bonobo orphans are pouring into primate sanctuaries across central Africa and thousands of adults are being killed, smoked and bundled with monkeys, pangolins, small antelope and bush pigs for sale in distant bushmeat markets....

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