A scoop of pelican at dawn
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Matutinal courtship...
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... playing hard to get... or not ready yet !
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Those hippo incisor can cause horrible wounds ...
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... this large gash looks like a Tessier Cleft 7 !
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A crash of hippo looking at us !
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The Go-away bird ! I love that name !
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Note how some areas have tall grasses while others are rather bare
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The unicorn Steenbok !
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This hippo has an ugly festering mid flank injury and another that narrowly missed his left eye
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A dead giraffe... cause unknown but not a predator since it is not eaten
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White-backed vulture
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Wattled cranes
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Help! I could not identify this bird !
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The Wattled cranes in front of a "Sleepopotamus". He was not dead as he occasionally blinked his eyes, but he was very still :(
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Sacred Ibis because it was the bird of the Egyptian god Thoth (the god of wisdom, reason, truth, knowledge, learning, study, writing and mathematics !!! Pfeww what a good guy ! We should restart that god !)
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Help ! Another I could not identify !
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The sandy path
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A pretty bare patch
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The Okavango slowly rising
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Monitor lizard
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No danger to the impala !
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