BOTSWANA: December 2024

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A male impala hides in tall grass in the Botswana savannah

Not all impalas are that lucky.

Predators even devour most of their bones.

A male greater kudu:

A magnificent, graceful, large antelope.

A hippopotamus grazes in a bird-filled pasture.

A bloat of hippopotamuses.

(Also known as a pod, herd or dale of hippopotamuses.)

A pair of warthogs snacking

after wallowing in the mud.

Mother and child.

A young leopard watches us through a tree and a termite mound.

Leopards spend much of their time in trees,

where they can ambush and haul up their prey

to protect their prey and themselves from predators.

This leopard surveys its opportunities atop a termite mound

These leopards have captured and are devouring an adolescent giraffe.

A pair of lions with their two cubs.

This lioness has no intention of sharing her prey with the lion.

Three adolescent cheetah brothers (background)

vie for the favor of an adolescent female (foreground).

Unlike many animals, male cheetahs don't compete with violence.

Zebras flank a termite mound as the sun sets in Botswana.

Peter, Lieschen & grandson Chris end their Botswana safari

with a visit to South Africa's wine region.

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