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10-17-2006, 02:09 PM
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WildCam Africa
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/n...ica/index.html
Lioness! Elephant family! (right now) This usually runs from August to Nevember each year. It's in a nature reserve. 
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#2
10-18-2006, 05:58 AM
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Apparently I missed it.
Due to technical difficulties, the live camera from Pete's pond in Botswana is offline. For your viewing pleasure, please enjoy this 36 minute presentation of "The best of WildCam Africa." 
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#3
10-18-2006, 07:53 AM
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Sheesh, you broke it! I've never had that problem and it was fine when I went to bed.
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#5
10-18-2006, 01:13 PM
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It was dark when I saw the elephants!
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#12
10-19-2006, 09:21 AM
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I like listening to the chirruping at night
(Oh, and I keep expecting to see things get attacked, because that all you ever seem to see on tele, but by and large the animals seem to be quite safe)
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#13
10-19-2006, 09:57 AM
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Pete's Pond in Botswana
Pete Le Roux carved Pete’s Pond into the landscape as his answer to the rampant poaching and senseless killing of Africa’s wildlife, acts that bothered him from the moment he arrived in 1985 to conduct a leopard research project as a graduate student from South Africa’s University of Pretoria. Back then a consortium of conservation-minded landowners had established the 183,178-acre (74,131-hectare) range as the Northern Tuli Game Reserve. Game, however, was scarce.
Le Roux believed wildlife could repopulate the reserve if they avoided the Limpopo River, where poachers lurked. Using the remnants of an old irrigation system from the area’s failed attempts to grow cotton, he built a pond as an alternative watering source. The idea worked. Almost too well. Today some researchers are concerned that the thriving elephant and impala populations have outgrown the land. Plans are now being made to include the reserve as part of the proposed Limpopo/Shashe Transfrontier Conservation Area. This transfrontier park would expand the animals’ territory into a protected reserve in neighboring South Africa and Zimbabwe. “We have effectively taken an area that was unsuccessful agricultural land and turned it into a viable wildlife preserve,” says Le Roux as he gazes out on the pond. “That is the most rewarding thing we’ve done here, to see the game come back.” More information found here.
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#14
10-19-2006, 12:58 PM
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Some kind of bird. Fairly large, probably about 3-4 feet tall. Not sure what it would be as I didn't think any birds that ran along the ground would be out 10:45 p.m. Would have thought they would have been roosted somewhere to sleep and keep out of the way of predators during the night.
Kinda looked like a heron.
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Cool to watch.
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