Kruger National Park is HUGE, almost four times as large as Grand Canyon National Park. It’s a brutal buffet scene, where a placid environment can turn violent before your eyes. Nature’s cleanup committee prevents viruses from spreading by powerfully digesting every speck.
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- Cape Buffalo, also known as Black Death, have killed more big game hunters than any other African mammal. Their sole predator is the lion.
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- Even when the pride has killed a buffalo, this lioness still keeps a watchful eye while she tears into her meal.
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- Sunset on the Manyaleti Game Reserve.
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- Next morning, we drove back to the site of the buffalo kill. A pack of hyenas fought over the horns and the brain – all that was left of the buffalo. Yum.
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- This hyena scored the teeth of the cape buffalo.
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- A group of vultures at a carcass is called a wake.
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- A cheetah tenses for her next move. Cheetahs have a black “tear track” that distinguishes them from leopards.
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- In a rare shot, here are rhinos following a male lion.
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- Endangered wild dogs hang together in packs. Their “smile” is deceptive – they have the strongest bite force quotient of any dog in the world.
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- Wild dogs are avid carnivores, hunting and eating twice a day. Their fur is often stained blood red. The impala did not have a good day.
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- A walking safari, in search of a cheetah, with Victor, our armed guide.
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- We found him!
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