Very human expressions and habits make baboon fun to watch and to paint. They can entirely ignore you, caught up in the soap opera that is their life, dining, sleeping, fighting and doing everything in their family groups, not to mention the politics!
Ground Hornbills are able to fly,despite their large size, but they need to take a run up to take off. They seem to always be in small flocks of uneven numbers, usually 3 or 5. Most often they are all related, and the two parents either have one chick or 3 chicks who stay with […]
This herd of charging elephant are actually charging towards water, after a long, hot, dusty day in the bush. In October, the hottest month in Southern Africa, the build up towards the rainy season is intense, and the contrast between the brooding, dark and stormy sky and the dry, dusty earth is huge. Water is […]
Cape Buffalo, Africa’s notorious bovine beast. This animal is not to be messed with! Their herds can number in the thousands, the huge bulls moving through as they like, with the females leading the pack. Speaking from personal experience, there is nothing scarier than being eye to eye with a rampaging buffalo. Having said that, […]
White backed Pelicans migrate regionally within Southern Africa, drawn to the huge pans and inland lakes scattered across the vast region that is Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. These countries all a have well known spot, favorites for the likes of pelicans and flamingos, such as the Okavango Delta, Makgadigadi Pans, the […]