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Photo of the Day: An Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object

You are lucky, to say the least, if you happen to catch a brief glimpse of a pangolin while on safari. Even professional safari guides often lament the fact that they’ve never stumbled upon one of these extremely rare and elusive nocturnal…
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Photo of the Day: A Tortoise Licking Leopard

Leopards are notoriously opportunistic feeders, a trait that has made them the most successful big cat species in the world. In fact, in South Africa’s Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve they have been recorded eating a total of 92 different…
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Photo of the Day: Asleep Beneath the Kalahari Skies

As you might imagine, few places can rival Botswana’s Kalahari Desert when it comes to spectacular stargazing. Because there is almost no light pollution in this sparsely inhabited corner of the globe, the adjective star-studded doesn’t begin to do these skies justice….
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Photo of the Day: The Kingmaker

This is Kalunde. He is 54 years old and lives in the forest of Tanzania’s Mahale Mountains. The camp staff at nearby Greystoke Mahale have dubbed him “the Kingmaker” because of his political guile. Over the years he’s played a…
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Photo of the Day: The King Taketh Away

This dramatic image of a male lion leaping from a tree with a dismembered impala clutched in his jaws was taken last month at Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve by safari guide Pravir Patel. He and his guests were admiring…
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