Ted's Excellent Pictures Taken In Great Karoo South Africa

Ted's Excellent Pictures Taken In Great Karoo
South Africa - March 2016

Samara Private Game Reserve:

Cheetah - female, about 3 years old - resting after dining on a young kudu
(wearing a tracking collar)

"Cheetah" is derived from the Sanskrit word Chitraka, meaning speckled

Hey Hey it's the Vervet Monkeys

Did you see that?!

I'd like to see her in a bikini! Right, Dad?

If you can't finish the fruit salad...

Kudu
Only males have the spiralling horns

Blue Crane

Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk

African Sacred Ibis

Leopard Tortoise

Eland, the largest antelope in Africa

Well hello there! Can I buy you a drink?

Black-backed Jackal (Canis mesomelas) - scavenger / hunter

Oryx (Gemsbok)

Male White Rhinoceros
(The "white" has nothing to do with colour - it comes from the Afrikaans word "weit", meaning "wide", for the flattened mouth evolved for grazing on grass)

The male with three females (de-horned for their protection from poachers)
Estimated to be about 18 years old and weigh well over 1000kg

Cape Mountain Zebra

What'll it be?

I could get used to this.

I am getting used to this!

Mountain Zebra National Park:

The Cape Mountain Zebra is an endangered zebra species.
It is distinct from the very common Burchell's Zebra (or plains zebra) seen in my Etosha pictures. Click to compare

The Cape Mountain Zebra is easy to distinguish from Burchell's Zebra by these characteristics:
- Legs fully striped
- No stripes on the belly
- No brown shadow stripes on the hindquarters