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Ref:  00111_Otter Otters live either alone or in pairs, and sometimes form small groups. It feeds on anything it can find in the water, from fishes to waterfowl, and from succulent plants to molluscs. It is mainly active at night and is fond of sunning on rocks along riverbanks. For shelter or refuge it often uses burrows dug by other animals, in vegetation or along sandy riverbanks.

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Ref:  00114_Wild-Dog-2 Lycaon pictus. Although similar in appearance to hyenas, African wild dogs are nevertheless true wild canidae. They are a mixture of black, yellow, and white in such a wide variety of patterns that no two individuals look exactly alike. African wild dogs are widely distributed across the African plains but they do not live in jungle areas.

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Ref:  00113_Wild-Dog-1 African wild dogs are social animals, living in packs of usually from 2 to 45 individuals. A hierarchy exists within the pack, but the animals are so friendly to one another that the pecking order is hard to determine. The young and the infirm are given special privileges within the pack.

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Ref:  00091_Spotted-Hyena Crocuta crocuta. Long regarded as a scavenger, the spotted hyena is quite capable of bringing down prey as large as a zebra. Weighing 37 kg, this strong, stocky beast is found all over the African savannah south of the Sahara Desert. Its jaws are probably the most powerful, in proportion to its size, of any living mammal. Far from being the craven cowards they have often been depicted as, they are capable, at times, of driving lions from their kill.

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Ref:  00090_Spotted-Hyena The spotted hyena spends its day in holes in the ground, or in rocky dens. They hunt in packs, mostly at night. They chase their prey until it is exhausted. Then the pack sets upon its victim and disembowels it. These noisy animals have several types of cries and bloodcurdling howls. They make a maniacal laughing sound when they are attacked.

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Ref:  00085_Cape-Buffalo Buffalo congregate in herds that can exceed several hundred members. They spend most of the day and night grazing. Older males will often leave the herd and spend their remaining days as solitary wanderers. Without the protection of the herd, many of these lone bulls fall prey to lions.

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Ref:  00084_Baboon Papio ursinus. Baboons are the largest members of the monkey family, possessing heads with long, naked, dog-like muzzles. Some species have patches of bright red, blue or purple skin on their face, chest, or rump. Depending on the species, baboons weigh approximately 14 to 40 kg with females being about half the size of males.

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Ref:  00083_Baboon Baboons live in well-organized troops, and the individual is only secure within his own troop. Large, dominant males rule the group and are responsible for keeping order between quarrelsome members and for protecting the group from predators. Their principal enemy is the leopard, but even leopards will avoid an encounter with the larger, adult males who are courageous and vicious adversaries.

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Ref:  00008 Cape Buffalo herd in a tall grassed glade at Hluhluwe Game Reserve, Zululand. Weighing about 700 kg on average, with much larger individuals reported, the horn span of some mature bulls is more than a metre in width.

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Ref:  00010 ''Phacochoerus aethiopicus''. Young Warthogs playing at Hluhluwe Game Reserve. Adults reach up to 90kg. Related to the domestic pig, the wart hog is distinguished by its enormous head and the two pairs of warts the male wears on its cheeks. Highly social, they often mate for life and live in family groups with six or more hoglets.

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Ref:  00020 A Blue Wildebeest in dense thicket at Hluhluwe Game Reserve. Although they have a fierce and foreboding appearance, they are not at all ferocious, and are preyed upon steadily by lions, hyenas, and wild dogs. The young, although able to run 20 minutes after birth, have a short life expectancy and are taken in large numbers by various predators.

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Ref:  00021 Juvenile giraffe with Oxpeckers on its back at Phinda Resource Reserve. The oxpeckers eat parasitic ticks and bugs in a symbionic relationship. Did you know that the collective noun for giraffe is a ''journey''? Their buff-coloured hide, with spots of darker brown, provides excellent camouflage, which is another aid to their survival.

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Ref:  00028 A solitary pair of hippo eyes watching from a river at Phinda Resource Reserve, Zululand. This huge animal averages between 1,100-1,400 kg and can weigh as much as 3,200 kg. Due to its specific gravity, it can submerge itself completely and walk on the bottom of the river. It comes up on land to feed on grasses and crops, mainly at night, and is most dangerous when it feels cut off from its watery environment.

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Ref:  00029 Warthog at Phinda Resource Reserve, Zululand. It is a rapid runner, a good swimmer, and because its body is almost hairless, it often wallows in the mud as protection from the sun. The huge, curved upper canines and stiletto-like lowers are capable of inflicting serious injury even to lions, and most predators prefer to avoid encounters with adult wart hogs.

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Ref:  00030 Cape Buffalo and egrets on a marsh at Amboseli, Kenya. Buffalo, aside from being ''Big Five'' animals, have a fearsome reputation for ferocity when wounded, and it is said that more big game hunters have been killed by the Cape Buffalo than by any other african animal.

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Ref:  00031 Gnu on the East African plains at Amboseli, Kenya. The gnu, or wildebeest, is a large ungainly type of antelope with a short, broad head and broad, heavy horns rather like those of a buffalo. The horns are part of the animal’s skull and remain throughout its life, as in cattle and sheep.

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Ref:  00032 ''Connochaetes taurinus'' Herd of gnu (or wildebeest) roaming the plains of Amboseli, Kenya. Commonly called ''Gnu'' in East Africa and ''Wildebeest'' in Southern Africa.

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Ref:  00044 A raft of hippopotami on the Mara River, Kenya. Although seemingly immobile, hippos cause more deaths per annum on the African continent that any other animal.

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