by Nicole Walker | Feb 23, 2022 | Big 5, conservation, Environment, Featured Articles, Leopard, Pangolin, Wild encounters
Leopards have a lot of competition out in the wild like Lions and Hyenas, even though they are great hunters. As small predators that are solitary walking through bushes and tall grasses, they need to be vigilant as they look for prey and look out for danger. Leopards...
by Nicole Walker | Dec 20, 2021 | Big 5, Environment, Featured Articles, Game Drive, Leopard, Rhino, Wild encounters
This past week at Kapama we celebrated the birth of a new rhino calf. Every new rhino born into the world is an incredible thing. However, this story did not have such a glamorous beginning. Over five years ago, on 19 January 2016, the mother of the rhino calf endured...
by Nicole Walker | Oct 23, 2021 | Big 5, Environment, Featured Articles, Game Drive, Leopard, Rhino, Wild encounters
For those of you that have ever been on a safari, I am sure you would have heard the phrase – “if you skip a game drive, you will miss the animal that you want to see the most”. For me, this infamous phrase has come true on a couple of occasions. ...
by Nicole Walker | Sep 18, 2021 | Big 5, Environment, Featured Articles, Leopard, Wild encounters
It was a beautiful spring day. I asked my guests if they wanted to leave slightly earlier on our afternoon drive, as we were on the hunt for the elusive leopard. It was the one animal my guests were desperate to see out in the wild. I heard earlier from a colleague a...
by Nicole Walker | Aug 25, 2021 | Big 5, Environment, Featured Articles, General, Impala, Lion, Wild encounters
I set off on our morning safari from Southern Camp with my assistant guide (Sifiso) and our guests. That particular morning was freezing, so we tried to get to a spot to watch the sunrise while we defrosted our bodies before setting off on our adventure. Vervet...
by Nicole Walker | Jul 15, 2021 | Big 5, conservation, Elephant, Environment, Featured Articles, General, Wild encounters
Thick-skinned and mammoth in size elephants are always suffering from the heat as they spend a lot of time baking in the hot South African sun. The produce a lot of body heat due to their large size, daily activity and consumption of large amounts of food. Elephants...
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