Anywhere you go in the world, there are birds: small, large, drab, gaudy. Noisy or silent, they are hunters of both seed and flesh. They owe their feathers and guile to the dinosaurs. Birds of Kruger National Park in South … Continue reading
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Number 9 on the list of Africa’s deadliest animals—to human beings, that is—is the African buffalo. I mistakenly referred to them when I first saw them soaking in a deep watery wallow as water buffalo, but those guys live only … Continue reading
After our visit with one lion, two lionesses and several scattered bones, Dixon drove off down the red dirt road, heading back to the lodge and our waiting vehicles. It was the last drive, our last morning in Kruger. I … Continue reading
My husband likes to remind me that hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal. A sliver of my right-brained mind likes facts and statistics to be proven, although statistics can lie depending on comparators, sample size and … Continue reading
In Kruger National Park, an area roughly the size of England, Scotland and Wales, situated in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of northeast South Africa, I have seen monkeys as squirrels (ubiquitous and opportunistic) and leopards becoming acacia branches (a … Continue reading
It’s Christmas in D.C., and rookie multimillionaire Anastasia Devlin is given the greatest gift of all — the arrival of her long-lost South African twin siblings, Juliana and Alexander. Of course, instead of gifts, the twins come bearing trouble that even the family’s new fortune can’t fix.
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