Read about the wild animals of Africa, watch them in action and even hear their roars and squeaks here, including all creatures from the Little to the Big Five.
Most first time safaris are focused on the Big 5 but on any decent safari your expert ranger will delight and enthuse with tall tales and fascinating facts about all creatures great and small. There’s nothing quite like an African safari holiday to spark a life long interest in wildlife. So for the more discerning [...]
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Animals always seem cuter as babies. Fully grown adult rhinos or lions, for example, just don’t evoke the same “Awwww” reaction in people as the smaller variety do. It’s more a respectful, “Fwoah – close the car window!” Our expert safari consultant, Samantha Myburgh, has just returned from a trip to the Okavango Delta. Lucky [...]
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You’ve heard of the big cats of Africa and probably even seen them – lion, cheetah, leopard… But do you know about the lesser-known, smaller wild cats of Africa? Caracal, serval, the African wild cat, the black footed cat and the African golden cat? There is plenty more to look out for in the African [...]
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Most people travel to South Africa and further on the continent to see the Big 5. The land based Big 5, that is. But becoming more and more popular are the Marine 5. They include whales, sharks, seals, penguins and dolphins, ocean creatures particularly popular at the southern tip of Africa. For more about the [...]
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“The Big Five” was a phrase coined by white hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot and the degree of danger involved. It’s still used today but also by tourist and wildlife guides leading African wildlife safaris and more in reference to these Big Five being the continent’s greatest wild animals.
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Whale Season officially kicks off in South Africa in June and runs until December each year. But nature doesn’t always work to the clock… It showed this when the long-awaited marine giants rocked up behind the breakers at Die Plaat in De Kelders, in Walker Bay, as early as April this year. They’ve been pretty [...]
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The Rhino Africa Flickr photo group is slowly growing and recently Jonathan Khoo posted a bunch of great photographs he took while he was on safari with Rhino Africa. Jonathon stayed for four nights at Kirkman’s Camp in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve part of the Greater Kruger National Park. While a safari might not [...]
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The migration of animals is one of the most humbling of phenomena to encounter. David Attenborough has been showing us that for years and we at Rhino Africa have been taking people on various trips to marvel at such wonders up close for years too. The extraordinary annual Great Migration of wildebeest and other grazing [...]
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Inhabiting large parts of Africa and parts of the Middle East, the cheetah belongs to the feline family Felidae and is the only living member of the genus Acinonyx. The cheetah is most noted for being the fastest land mammal, clocking in at speeds of between 110 and 120 kilometres per hour over short distances. [...]
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Stealthy, agile and a devastating hunter, the most widely distributed of Africa’s big cats is also the most seldom seen. Elusive and solitary it is only at certain private game reserves in the Greater Kruger National Park where Leopards are regularly seen and habituated to the presence of man. But wherever you might be on [...]
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The African Lion (Penthera leo) is the largest and most impressive of Africa’s big cats and the second largest big cat in the world after the Tiger, which is found in Asia. Lions are significantly more gregarious than any of the other wild cats and form cohesive groups called prides. The cooperative nature of the [...]
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Any Sex and the City fan will recall that scene in the second movie where our four girls belt out one of the great female anthems in an Abu Dhabi karaoke bar. It is one of those definitive girl-power moments where you can’t but help get more than a little filled with the belief in [...]
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