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Today's Picture: Spotted Hyena Pup April 14, 2008 |
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Photo Details: Spotted Hyena pup (Crocuta crocuta) emerges from its den to inspect our game drive vehicle,
Mashatu Game Reserve, Tuli Block, Botswana.
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Send a WWF card on Earth Day April 21, 2008 |
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Today's Picture: Waterbuck Bull, Rear View April 24, 2008 |
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Photo Details: Waterbuck Bull (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) walking away, showing the distinctiive
white ring encircling its rump, Mashatu Game Reserve, Tuli Block, Botswana.
Additional Info: The smaller picture on the right, taken moments before the waterbuck swung away and walked off, shows the white ring from the side. The purpose of this unusual marking is not known, although
animal behaviourists speculate it could be a following mechanism, acting as a beacon for other members of the
group to follow. The defassa waterbuck (a sub-species occurring mainly to the west of Africa's Rift Valley) has a
solid white patch on its rump instead of the elliptical ring.
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Today's Picture: Captive Chimpanzee April 29, 2008 |
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Photo Details: Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) sitting on its haunches in the chimpanzee
enclosure, Natal Zoological Gardens, KZN, South Africa.
Additional Info: I know we shouldn't ascribe human thoughts and emotions to animals, but this picture, together with others I have of captive chimpanzees, leaves me deeply moved. I find it impossible to ignore the look in their eyes. It's not so much anger and/or acccusation, as one might expect, but rather a resigned acceptance of the fate they've been handed by their human brethren. To illustrate what I mean, I will be running more pictures of captive chimpanzees over the next few
days, even though they are not of animals in the wild, which is what I normally try to show on this site.
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