Arrived back in the smoggy old city this evening. Before I forget, here are some further highlights of the Amazing Safari Adventure:
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Driving under a tree and disturbing a huge
Martial Eagle perched there. It flew off overhead, dropping its mangled prey
into the road ahead of us. This turned out to have been a tiny Steenbok, of
which only one hoof and a head remained. Minus the eyeballs.
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Spotting a nocturnal civet quietly ambling along
by moonlight in front of the house. It was similar to a badger or raccoon in shape,
but with cat-like markings. The secretions of the civet were apparently used as
a fixative in perfumes for thousands of years.
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Achieving the worst scrabble scores in the
history of the game.
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Shrinking down in an attempt to disappear under
the dashboard as two lionesses sauntered towards our game-viewing vehicle. They
stopped a relatively short distance away in order to start licking each other,
thank God.
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Almost seeing a leopard: last night its loud,
sawing cough echoed out of the dark next to the house, greatly upsetting the
troop of baboons roosting in a nearby tree and sending the humans scuttling for
lights and binoculars. A large male leopard was seen by the carport, but not by
me as per usual. Once again I failed to charge out with the required speed to
glimpse it.
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