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Coke’s hartebeest: a safari treat in Kenya and Tanzania

People don’t care too much about the Coke’s hartebeest (also called kongoni). When on safari it’s all lions and elephants,

A buffalo can run faster than you, so watch out when on safari. They are aggressive and powerful, charging at

Only a privileged few have heard the sound a leopard makes. These elusive and solitary cats are usually silent. Yet

A Zimbabwe safari is different. Less people, fewer rules, more wilderness and a country that confounds perceptions. It’s wild and

Olduvai Gorge is home to the oldest evidence of human existence. We all have our roots on the East African

Galloping across the highveld comes a blesbok, its striking white face glistening beneath the sun. Spiralled horns rise skywards and

Gorillas are very much like us. They can make an enormous variation of sounds. Gorillas can easily make themselves heard.

Elephants wander beneath Mount Kilimanjaro in Amboseli. Could there be a more iconic safari sight, anywhere in Africa? Yet this

Every December the Ndutu plains begin to stir. Blue wildebeest arrive in their hundreds of thousands. Scraggy resident predators prepare

Chacma baboons are big, scary and dangerous. They prowl Southern Africa in large troops, often coming in close proximity to