Sunset by one of the Mana Pools
Zimbabwean World Heritage Site at Mana Pools: stunning landscape by the W. extension of the G...
The misty, magical, Zambezi
4th longest African river basin (after the Nile, Congo and Niger): 4.5% of continental area o...
Nightfall by the Zambezi
The Zambezian ecoregion is 75% of southern Africa: an ancient human creation: wood cutting fo...
Acacia trees, Savanna-Woodland
Do you know that Genetically we are all Africans? The savannah-woodland landscape I grew up t...
Nightfall walk by the Zambezi
Mopane woodland: nutritional rich leaf, twigs and fruit available during the dry, hottest sea...
Magic Mopane
Mean annual temp in the region has increased c. 1.5 times the observed global average of 0.65...
Zambian escarpment at twilight
Zambezi: a river basin with 4.5% of continental area spreading over 8 countries: Uncertain hu...
Nightfall by the Zambezi
River basin with 4.5% of continental area spreading over 8 countries: Human development and w...
Zambezian outline at Nightfall
The Mana Pools National Park is a 15km x 3,5km stretch of woodland savanna and dry river chan...
Mopane Twilight
Climate, soil, landform and humans regulate vegetation of the Zambezian domain (75% of southe...
The Iconic Tree of Life
Baobab: enduring trees (c.2 500 yr): as a Mozambican archaeologist I used them as an indicato...
The Greater Kudu Bull
One of the largest woodland antelopes (E.&S.Africa). Greater Kudu: beard along its throat and...
Female Kudu
Two female Greater Kudu and 3 Oxpeckers (bug cleaners that hiss loudly when spotting danger):...
Baboon in disguise
2 varieties, one of largest of monkeys include the Chacma (southern African) and the Yellow B...
International Primate Day 1 September
Shockingly, 60% of primates are now considered to be threatened with extinction: Pet market (...
Vervet Monkey female portrait
Mana Pools,Zimbabwe, 7 Oct 2018, Olympus E-M1Mk2 | Zuiko 300mm F4 | at 300 mm | 1/250 sec | f...
Young African Wild Dogs
Highly social, all help puppies and sick members in sharing food and care. Skillful teamwork ...
Young African Wild Dog
Mana Pools (Zimbabwe), Oct 2018. One of the most endangered mammals: habitat loss, target kil...
Hearing the ‘Jungle Bells’ at dawn
African Wild Dogs: very social, every one helps with puppies and sick members, sharing food a...
Young African Wild Dog
Highly social packs, every one assists with puppies and sick members, sharing food and care. ...
I am all ears…
Young African Wild Dog: habitat loss, target killing by humans and competition with other pre...
Elephant Tuskless Mutation
Elephants with a rare “tuskless” genetic trait that better survived Mozambique’s long civil w...
Altruistic Best Friends
Both Elephants and Baboons have problem-solving capacity and enduring matrilineal rule: Coope...
Mother Elephant, Egret and Termite
Smallest and largest, visible and invisible, only survive together. Elephants have major cogn...
Standing Elephant
Food shortage requires reaching up high for Acacia pods: elephants now “highly endangered”: f...
Bull Elephant
c.800 000 killed for ivory over the past 30 y; c.1000 USD/kg price of ivory on the Asian blac...
Elephant at sunset
...Nowhere else to go: Highly endangered (c. 8% annual decline/ slaughter for ivory, c. 800 0...
Sexually mature Elephant Bull
5 Oct 2018. Olympus E-M1 mk2 | Zuiko M.300mm F4 | 1/500sec | f/ 4 | ISO 200.
Elephant at nightfall
Elephants have major cognitive abilites and a developed social setup: From over 3 million in ...
World Elephant Day
Mother and Child, for how long? c. 3 million African elephants in the early 20th century; c. ...
Zambezi River Crossing
Zambian escarpment on the background: Elephants are highly water dependant (150-300 L/day), l...
Impala female
‘Species of Least Concern’ (IUCN) although extinct in Burundi: Widespread in most savannah pr...
Impala male
‘Species of Least Concern’ (IUCN) although extinct in Burundi: Widespread in most savannah pr...
Savanna Buffalo
Mostly non-migratory, little seasonal variation in group size (c.10-500 sp). Within herds sma...
Hippo and bird
‘Vulnerable’ species (IUCN Red List): Largest Zimbabwean clustering at Mana: Capricious, larg...
Hippo Pool
Hippo Pool Fight: Bulls rule over 5-30 females in the water but are not territorial on land. ...
Aggressive rituals
A Hippo ‘yawn’ usually mean confrontation in the water, from a mother protecting her young to...
A Restful Hippo pool at Nightfall
Capricious, large (c. 1,500kg, 3rd largest land mammal after elephant and rhinoceros), fast (...
Sunset by the Hippo pool.
Water reservoirs become a treasured resource with drought. Bulls rule over 5-30 females in th...
Hippie, the 'official' Camping Hippo
'Hippie' often slept at the Safari Camp where we stayed, in his own-made bed of leaves; Perha...
Zebra: mother and child at sunset
Burchell’s Zebra, each one with a unique stripe pattern. Core social unit,bonded by mutual gr...
Greater Kudu Bachelors
Herds of >20 split into smaller groups. Bachelor form groups of young bulls when reaching sex...
Female Waterbuck:
Riverine woodland antelope, grazers of coarse grass seldom eaten by other grazers. ‘Least Thr...
Spotted Hyena
Largest of 4 sp.: one of Africa’s skilful hunters (c.70% direct kills): Female-dominated clan...
Lioness at sunset
Walking the Twilight along the Zambezi: Lions once ranged throughout Africa except large dese...
Bat
Look at Corona in the eye: There is a deadly pathogen: Us… Our relationship with Nature must ...
White-Fronted Bee-Eater
These small, beautiful birds live and nest in holes created in the sand of the river banks. t...
The Milky Way at Mana Pools
A night experiment... 4 October 2018. Olympus E-M1 mk2 | Zuiko 7-14mm F2.8 | @7mm | 60’’ | f/...