Okavango Baboons
Adrian Bailey and Robyn Keene-Young recently spent the best part of a year with a troop of Chacma baboons in Botswana’s wild and remote Okavango Delta. On a string of islands, inaccessible by vehicle for most of the year and miles upstream from the nearest outpost of civilization, the photographer and writer walked with the [...]
Zambezi
Missionary and explorer David Livingstone once referred to the Zambezi River as a “magnificent stream”. Clearly, he never paddled himself down Africa’s fourth largest river in a Canadian-style canoe, sharing the water with a few thousand fiercely territorial hippos and man-eating crocodiles, camping on its banks in the company of lions, hyenas, elephants and buffaloes. [...]
African Wild Dogs
This feature documents a pack of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) during their annual denning season. In the austral winter from July to September, these typically hyperactive animals become semi-sedentary while they produce and raise their young at a den – commonly an abandoned warthog or aardvark burrow in a termite mound surrounded by impenetrable [...]
Wildlife Relocation
As human development has closed the ancient migratory paths African wildlife used to follow to seek fresh grazing and water, the manual relocation of wildlife has replaced natural migration. A seasonal operation that takes place when animals are under least stress, predators, antelope and even elephant are captured and moved for commercial or scientific [...]