Quest for chimpanzees
Gillian and I had been to Uganda before to see the rare mountain gorilla, and this time we decided to travel there to see…
Rare species
Search for the shoebill
The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) is a somewhat enigmatic large stork-like bird that is found in swamps between Sudan and Zambia in Africa. While the…
Wildlife weekend
It is astonishing what you can see in the equivalent of a weekend! I was on safari for three nights – really two full…
African Wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) are back in the Serengeti!
In 1989 and 1990 African wild dogs were seen quite frequently in the Serengeti Plains during the rains and short dry season (December –…
Close Encounters of the primate kind….
The young Blackback came over and sat not far away, gazing into the distance, as if in deep thought. And then an interaction most…