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Bushmen in Tanzania – This ain’t no reality show.
"Jambo!" said the young boy, as he reached out a hand still bloody from the freshly-skinned baboon he had just deposited in camp. "Jambo", I replied, hesitating for only a moment before stretching my hand out in return. It was a scene right out of Lord of the Flies,...
Stripes: not always a good choice in Tanzania
If you're packing for a safari in the Serengeti, you may want to avoid stripes. And not because they'll make your butt look big... Take this zebra, for example. We thought it was odd that this zebra was by herself, since this was migration season when there are herds...
If you want to see grownup cats, go to Tanzania.
Sure, kitten videos online may be cute, but Tanzania has the BIG CATS. Lions and leopards have long been part of the ‘Big Five’, a term that big-game hunters coined to describe Africa’s 5 most difficult animals to hunt on foot. Fortunately, the days of big-game...
Monkeys – from the sublime to the ridiculous
My first thought was "flying skunks!" We had only caught a glimpse of black and white, leaping in the branches of the tree above the road as we entered Arusha National Park in Tanzania. But when we stopped the jeep the entire group crossed the road around us, and we...
