South Africa: Madikwe, Day 3
Our first few days at Madikwe, a lot of the animals were staying hidden due to the rain. We never did see leopards there. On the other hand we saw a bunch of rarer, smaller animals: a jackal and a wild cat (no pictures of either) and the very rare caracal cat – the picture here isn’t great but you can see the characteristic ear tufts. I don’t think ostrchesare rare at all there (they farm and eat them) but this was the only day we saw any in the wild. We also got to see a couple of half-grown lion cubs wondering if they should be stalking an old male buffalo that our ranger said was “way out of their league”.
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