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Hippo Yawning
Mammals

Hippo Yawning

Estes, in his book ‘The Behaviour Guide to African Mammals’, briefly describes yawning as a threat display and includes a line drawing showing the behaviour where two rivals stand face to face with their mouths wide open. Another reference suggests that this is a way for two bulls to size each other up. What is

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Common Duiker
Mammals

Common Duiker Alarm Call

Some antelope such as Impala are very vocal, particularly in the breeding season. Kudu and Nyala both have very loud alarm barks. But what about the much smaller Common Duiker? We have a resident pair living around our home in Raptor’s View Wildlife Estate in Hoedspruit, South Africa and never seem to hear anything from

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Black Rhino
Mammals

Black Rhino Stare-down

We are on our sound safari at Sausage Tree Safari Camp in the Balule Game Reserve on the edge of Kruger National Park. It is 8am as we drive around a bend in the road and suddenly a large Black Rhino is spotted feeding behind a bush close to the road. We stop, switch the

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Leopard
Mammals

The Leopards’ Love Song

It is now the third morning in a row that a leopard has been calling over and over around the house any time from 3am through to daybreak.  On day 1 it was still calling at 7am very close to where we were walking, and we decided that we should discontinue the walk until later

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