By Any Name, Will Smell As Sweet     News Flash! Africa’s Acacia tree is gone. Historic African Acacia tree, star of the African vista for hundreds of years and the symbol for many of Africa’s banks and businesses, is no more! But what can this mean? Another mass extinction theory? Eaten by worms? An […]

Loving Bananas     Banana! Even the name sounds silly. But, I suppose when you’re a berry… that grows on a tree… built like a cucumber… colored red, green, purple or yellow… that everything wants to eat… a silly name would be the least of your worries!     Around these parts, almost everyone loves […]

True African Lion Hunters Tale     Remember Mungo Park? No, not in London or New York, but here in Africa. Well, sort of. His name was in fact, Mungo Park and he was an early, Scottish-born, British adventurer. As an explorer for the British African Association from 1794, he had two major explorations of […]

Rains Return Our Ordinary Wildlife     Our ordinary wildlife returns no more, having faded away, as dry and brutal heat marked the passage of winter to summer. We watched as swollen clouds rumbled across the sky, carrying rain to the mountains, dumping snow where it didn’t belong. And then, one day, the rain came […]

Kruger Park Grazers and Browsers     The Wildveld This is both an English and an Afrikaans word used to depict all naturally wild areas of Africa. The last article dealt with the Lowveld/Slowveld syndrome and this is also of the wild but depicts a wider area. As you know, we are dealing with the […]

Kruger Park Grazers and Browsers     The Lowveld Also know by the colloquialism, the slowveld. Yes, life is slow in this part of the world and as in most other slow parts of the world, things do speed up in these, our-modern-times. Even see the animals strutting along faster than they used to. I […]

Large Animals of the Kruger Park     The Bushveld Why is the Bushveld different to other wildlife sanctuaries? In simple layman’s terms, it has a larger variety of animals due to the variation of food availability, as opposed to mountainous or grassland reserves, which it has as well. The purpose of this article, is […]

Ostrich Babies… No More!     All Chicks That Were Hatched Still Survive Remember the eight little ostrich chicks? Guess what? They’re growing up! They’re now six weeks older and almost unrecognizable. The big family this little family belongs to, is that of the Common ostrich (Struthio camelus) ours are a sub branch known as […]

The Little Luxuries of Life     Living in the wilds of Africa, there isn’t always access to life’s little luxuries. Grilled meat and coal-baked potatoes are all very well and good. Mmm… especially with a cold beer after a hot day… but sometimes a glass of wine and bit of cheese is very appealing. […]

Dung Beetles Life and Value     Our Friendly Little Bug, the Dung Beetle Noses? I hope for their sakes the olfactory senses are absent. OK, so you think I’m crazy writing about a dung beetle, a humble scarab. You’re going to be surprised to discover what these little dung-bugs represent to our everyday lives. […]

And So A Duiker Is Born     A Duiker Family Grey Duiker – Sylvicapra grimmia. Of all the antelope giving birth… finding a duiker giving birth in the wild is very uncommon. Another unusual phenomena is at the end of this story – now, don’t look! Keep the surprise. Excuse the quality of the […]

Never be a Target of a Mugging     Keep South Africa Clean. Don’t Get Mugged I believe I promised you something. If you’re here because of our last entry on Wildmoz, then welcome. If not, please read the last entry entitled, “Mugged: Save Your Hide Touring South Africa”  for the intro to this story. […]