South African Wildlife

Descriptions and photographs of South Africa’s astounding wildlife

Plants

South Africa is home to over 20,000 indigenous plant species. These are the species we’ve featured here at de Wets Wild:

: Agapanthus

: Von Wielligh’s baobab in summer

: Botterboom (Tylecodon paniculatus)

: Highveld Cabbage Trees

: Camel Thorn tree with sociable weaver nest

: Rich floral diversity at the Cape of Good Hope – these white flowers are known as Cape Snow (Syncarpha vestita)

: Giant Carrion Flower (Stapelia gigantea)

: Cape Chestnut flowers

: Silver Cluster-leaf

: Pig’s Ear flower

: Candy-striped Crinum flowers

: Common Tree Ferns

: Large-leaved Rock Fig

: Namaqua Fig

: Sycomore Fig on the banks of the Nwatindlopfu

: Bushveld Gardenia fruit

: Perennial Glasswort

: Honeybee and honeysuckle

: Kelp

: Beautiful impala lily flowers

: Kudu Lily

: River Lily

: Swazi Lily

: Sunrise over Imfolozi with a Marula in silhouette

: Black Monkey Orange

: Green Monkey Orange

: Mopane leaves are uniquely butterfly- or spoor-shaped

: Natal Plum / Large Num-num

: Forest Num-num

: Karoo Num-num flowers

: Ouhout leaves

: Kosi Raphia Palms and Joubert

: Wild Parasol Flower bloom

: Pincushion

: Plumbago in bloom

: Large Namaqua Porkbush

: Sickle Bush flowers

: Spekboom leaves

: Common Sugarbush

: Sweet Thorn in Doornhoek Picnic Site

: There’s beautiful specimens of the fever tree at uMkhuze

: Sunrise over the Augrabies landscape shows a lone Quiver Tree

: Sausage Tree Fruit

: Shepherd’s Tree

: Silver Tree

: Umbrella Thorn

: Beautiful Blue Water Lily

: Bee and White Water Lily

: Outeniqua Yellowwoods (Podocarpus falcatus) towering over the road near Nature’s Valley

: Weeping Wattle blooms

Invertebrates

South Africa has a bounty of over 100,000 kinds of insects and more than 3,000 species of arachnids, among a multitude of other invertebrate life. These are the species we’ve featured here at de Wets Wild:

: Garden Acraea on exotic lantana

: Natal Acraea butterfly

: Matabele Ants

: Tailor Ants

: Antlion larvae

: Forest Beauty

: Honey Bee on Cape Honeysuckle

: CMR Blister Beetle

: Flightless Dung Beetle

: Dung beetles

: Flatface Longhorn Beetle (Lasiopezus longimanus), identified with the kind assistance of the “Insects only – Southern Africa” facebook page.

: Tailed Black-eye Butterfly

: African Grass Blue

: Common Blue (Leptotes sp)

: Patrician Blue

: Pea Blue butterflies

: Topaz Spotted Blue

: Geranium Bronze butterfly

: Common Bush Brown

: Rainforest Brown butterfly

: Garden Commodore (wet season colouration)

: Gaudy Commodore (dry season form)

: Dusky Copper butterfly

: Ghost Crab in the surf at Cape Vidal

: Natal Rock Crab

: Armoured ground crickets abound in the mopaneveld in the north of the Park

: A huge bush cricket (Clonia wahlbergii) that shared our open-air shower at Mapungubwe National Park

: Common Diadem (male)

: Common Dotted Border

: False Dotted Border

: Twin Dotted Border

: Foxy Emperor butterfly

: Pearl-spotted Emperor

: Garden Fruit Chafer

: Elegant Grasshopper

: Poisonous Koppie Foam Grasshopper

: Leprous Grasshopper nymphs

: Guinea-fowl Butterfly

: Spotted Jokers congregating on rotting fallen fruit in Mpila

: Layman butterfly

: Beautiful African Leopard (Phalanta-butterfly)

: Forest Leopard butterfly

: Green Milkweed Locust

: Drakensberg Malachite

: African Migrant (Butterfly)

: Pill-millipede

: African Monarch butterfly

: Sundowner Moth

: Clouded Mother-of-Pearl Butterfly

: Novice butterfly

: Four-colour Nudibranch (Godiva quadricolor)

: Painted Lady

: Blue Pansy

: Brown Commodore, aka Brown Pansy

: Eyed Pansy

: Soldier Pansy

: Yellow Pansy butterfly

: Two-pip Policeman (butterfly)

: Streaked Sailer butterfly

: Sandman Butterfly

: Tree Creeper Scorpion

: Common Hottentot Skipper (male)

: Giant land snail

: Golden Orb-web Spider

: Rain Spider, the size of a cake plate!

: Solifuge a.k.a. Sun Spider

: Citrus Swallowtail

: Green-banded Swallowtail butterflies

: A Flying Handkerchief – the male Mocker Swallowtail – seen along the trail in Hilltop Camp

: Large Striped Swordtail

: Small-striped Swordtail (photo by Joubert)

: Banded Gold Tip

: Common Orange Tip (male)

: Mating Purple Tips

: Small Orange Tip (male)

: Scarlet Tip

: Sulphur Orange Tip

: Boisduval’s Tree Nymph (female)

: Vine-leaf Vagrant

: Velvet Ant female – This flightless wasp mimics an ant whle searching for unsuspecting prey.

: Wanderer butterfly

: Rain Spider Wasp (Tachypompilus ignitus)

: Thread-waisted Wasp closing up the nest-burrow

: African Common White

: African Small White butterfly on Karoo Num-num flowers

: African Wood White

: Ant-heap Whites

: Bontle’s also home to other beauties – this is a Brown-veined White butterfly

: Common Meadow White

: Zebra White butterfly

: Broad-bordered Grass Yellows

Fish

South Africa can boast around 100 species of indigenous freshwater fish, with 2,200 marine species occurring along its coastline. These are the species we’ve featured here at de Wets Wild:

: Common Carp

: Sharptooth Catfish (photograph courtesy of Niel de Wet)

: Klipfish

: African Mudhopper

: Convict Surgeonfish in a rock pool at Cape Vidal

: Tigerfish (National Zoological Gardens, Pretoria)

: Adult Male Mozambique Tilapia

: Redbreast Tilapia in Nsumo Pan

Amphibians

It is estimated that South Africa is home to at least 110 different kinds of frogs and toads. These are the species we’ve featured here at de Wets Wild:

: Juvenile African (Edible) (Lesser) Bullfrog

: Banded Rubber Frog

: Brown-backed Tree Frog

: Clicking Stream Frog

: Common River Frog

: Natal Sand Frog

: Painted Reed Frog in Skukuza

: Foam Nest Frog

: Common Platanna moving over dry land after a rain storm in the Karoo

: Eastern Olive Toad

: Guttural Toad

: Raucous Toad: Storms River Mouth has an amazing variety of toads and frogs that show themselves after dark

: Red Toad at home outside our cottage

Reptiles

South Africa is blessed with more than 350 different species of reptile. These are the species we’ve featured here at de Wets Wild:

: Gaboon adder (captive)

: Puff adder, poised to strike

: Ground Agama

: Southern Rock Agama

: Tree Agama in Crocodile Bridge

: Boomslang

: Flap-necked Chameleon

: Drakensberg Dwarf Chameleon

: Nile crocodile at Sunset Dam

: Bibron’s Thick-toed Gecko

: Common Dwarf Gecko

: Common Tropical House Gecko making short work of a cockroach

: Marbled Leaf-toed Gecko

: Turner’s Thick-toed Gecko

: Albany, or Striped, Sandveld Lizard at Jack’s Picnic Spot

: Augrabies Flat Lizard male

: Barberton Girdled Lizard

: Black Girdled Lizard

: Cape Girdled Lizard

: Giant Plated Lizards

: Namaqua Sand Lizard

: Yellow-throated Plated Lizard

: Black Mamba

: Water Monitor

: Rock Monitor

: Our best ever sighting of a wild python!

: Eastern Coastal Skink

: Giant Legless Skink

: Karasburg Tree Skink

: Rainbow Skink (male)

: Speckled Rock Skink

: Striped Skink

: Variable Skink

: Western Rock Skink male

: Variegated slug eater

: Incognito Thread Snake

: Mole Snake (photo by Joubert)

: Eastern Natal Green Snake

: Our friendly breakfast Olive Grass Snake

: Western Stripe-bellied Sand Snake hunting skinks in Shingwedzi

: Marsh Terrapins at the hide in Karoo National Park

: Serrated Hinged Terrapin

: Angulate Tortoise

: Bell’s Hinged Tortoise

: Leopard tortoise feeding on fresh shoots next to the road

: Lobatse Hinged Tortoise

: Natal Hinged Tortoise

: Speke’s Hinged Tortoise

Birds

Around 858 bird species have been recorded in South Africa. These are the species we’ve featured here at de Wets Wild:

: Bar-throated Apalis

: Yellow-breasted Apalis

: Pied Avocets

: Arrow-marked Babbler

: Acacia Pied Barbet

: Crested Barbet

: Black-collared Barbet

: White-eared Barbets

: Bateleur

: Cape Batis (female)

: Chinspot Batis (male)

: Pririt Batis

: Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

: European Bee-eaters

: Little Bee-eater

: Southern Carmine Bee-eater

: Swallow-tailed Bee-eater

: White-fronted Bee-eater

: Red Bishop

: Dwarf Bittern

: Bokmakierie

: Southern Boubou

: Terrestrial Brownbul

: Brubru

: African Red-eyed Bulbul

: Dark-capped Bulbul

: Cape Bulbul

: Cape Bunting

: Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

: Golden-breasted Bunting

: Lark-like Bunting

: Bush Blackcap in Thendele

: Yellow-throated Bush Sparrow

: Grey-headed Bush-shrike (photo by Joubert)

: Orange-breasted Bush Shrike

: Black-bellied Bustard

: Denham’s bustard

: Kori Bustard

: European Honey Buzzard

: Jackal Buzzard

: Steppe Buzzard

: Green-backed Camaroptera

: Grey-backed Camaroptera

: Black-throated Canary

: Brimstone Canary

: Cape Canary

: Forest Canary

: White-throated Canary

: Yellow Canary

: Yellow-fronted Canary

: Ant-eating Chat

: Familiar Chat

: Karoo Chat

: Mocking Cliff Chat (male)

: Grey-backed Cisticola

: Levaillant’s Cisticola

: Rattling Cisticola

: Rufous-winged Cisticola

: Zitting Cisticola

: Red-knobbed Coot

: Bank Cormorant

: Cape Cormorant

: Crowned Cormorant

: Reed Cormorant

: White-breasted Cormorant

: Burchell’s Coucal

: Double-banded Courser

: Temminck’s Courser

: Black Crake

: Blue Crane at Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary

: Grey Crowned Crane

: Long-billed Crombec

: Cape Crow

: Pied crows at the remains of the blesbok

: African Cuckoo

: Diederik Cuckoo

: Great Spotted Cuckoo

: Jacobin Cuckoo (Black Morph)

: African Darter

: Spotted Thick-knee

: Water Thick-knee

: African Mourning Dove

: Cape Turtle Dove

: Emerald-spotted Wood Dove

: Laughing Dove

: Namaqua Dove

: Rock Dove

: Red-eyed Dove

: Fork-tailed Drongo

: African Black Duck

: Fulvous Whistling Duck (photo by Joubert)

: Knob-billed Duck female

: Mallard drake

: South African Shelduck (male)

: White-backed Ducks

: White-faced Whistling Duck

: Yellow-billed Duck

: African Fish Eagle flypast

: African Hawk Eagle

: Black-chested Snake Eagle

: Brown Snake Eagle

: Crowned Eagle (captive)

: Long-crested eagle

: Martial Eagle

: Southern Banded Snake Eagle

: Tawny Eagle

: Verreaux’s Eagles at Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens

: Wahlberg’s Eagle

: Western Cattle Egret

: Little Egret

: Great Egret

: Yellow-billed Egret

: Amur Falcon

: Cut-throat Finch male

: Red-headed Finch (male)

: Scaly-feathered Finch

: African Firefinch (male)

: Jameson’s Firefinch

: Red-billed Firefinch

: Fiscal Shrike

: Greater Flamingo in flight

: Lesser Flamingoes

: Male Buff-spotted Flufftail

: African Dusky Flycatcher

: African Paradise Flycatcher (male on nest)

: Ashy Flycatcher

: Fiscal Flycatcher

: Southern Black Flycatcher

: Spotted Flycatcher

: Coqui Francolin (male)

: Crested Francolins

: Grey-winged francolin

: Grey Go-away-bird

: African Pygmy Geese (photo by Niel de Wet)

: Egyptian Goose

: Spur-winged Goose (male)

: Pale Chanting Goshawk

: Cape Grassbird

: Great Crested Grebe

: Little Grebe

: Sombre Greenbul

: Yellow-bellied Greenbul

: Common Greenshank

: Crested Guineafowl – iSimangaliso Wetland Park

: Helmeted Guineafowl

: Grey-headed Gull

: Kelp Gull

: Hartlaub’s Gull

: Hamerkop

: Black Harrier

: African Harrier Hawk

: White-crested Helmetshrike

: Black Heron “canopy feeding”

: Black-crowned Night Heron (photo by Joubert)

: Black-headed Heron

: Goliath Heron

: Green-backed Heron

: Grey heron at Lake Panic

: Purple Heron

: Squacco Heron

: African Hoopoe

: African Grey Hornbill

: Crowned Hornbill

: Southern Ground Hornbill

: Red-billed Hornbill

: Yellow-billed hornbill

: Trumpeter Hornbill

: African Sacred Ibis

: Glossy Ibis

: Hadeda in flight over Pretoria

: Southern Bald Ibis

: Male Village Indigobird

: African Jacana

: Rock Kestrel

: African Pygmy Kingfisher

: Brown-hooded Kingfisher

: Giant Kingfisher

: Malachite Kingfisher

: Pied Kingfishers

: Woodland Kingfisher

: Yellow-billed kite

: Black-winged Kite

: Karoo Korhaan

: Northern Black Korhaan male

: Red-crested Korhaan

: Male Southern Black Korhaan

: African Wattled Lapwing

: Blacksmith Lapwing

: Crowned lapwing

: White-crowned Lapwing

: Karoo Long-billed Lark

: Large-billed Lark

: Rufous-naped Lark

: Sabota Lark

: Cape Longclaw

: Yellow-throated Longclaw

: Feral Lovebird

: Green Malkoha

: Bronze Mannikin

: Marabou in flight

: Rock Martin

: Common Moorhen

: Lesser Moorhen

: Red-faced Mousebird

: Speckled mousebird

: White-backed Mousebird

: The Common Myna is an alien invasive species

: Neddicky

: Eastern Nicator

: European Nightjar

: African Openbill

: Black-headed Oriole

: Western Osprey

: Ostrich male

: African Scops Owl

: Marsh Owl

: Pel’s Fishing Owl (photo by Joubert)

: Spotted Eagle Owl

: Verreaux’s Eagle Owl

: African Barred Owlet

: Pearl-spotted Owlet seen in Nossob

: Red-billed Oxpecker

: Yellow-billed Oxpecker

: African Oystercatcher

: Rose-ringed Parakeet

: Brown-headed Parrot

: Indian Peafowl

: Pink-backed Pelican in flight over Umlalazi Nature Reserve

: African Penguin at Boulders Beach

: African Green Pigeon

: African Olive Pigeon

: Speckled Pigeon (photo by Joubert)

: African Pipit

: Buffy Pipit

: Common Ringed Plover

: Grey Plover

: Kittlitz’s Plover

: Three-banded Plover

: White-fronted Plover

: Southern Pochard (photo by Joubert)

: Collared Pratincole

: Drakensberg Prinia

: Karoo Prinia

: Tawny-flanked Prinia

: Black-backed Puffback

: Green-winged Pytilia (male)

: Red-billed quelea

: White-necked Raven

: Cape Robin-Chat

: Chorister Robin-Chat

: Red-capped Robin-Chat

: White-throated Robin-Chat

: Broad-billed Roller

: European Roller

: Lilac-breasted Roller

: Purple Roller (photo by Joubert)

: Ruff

: Double-Banded Sandgrouse Male

: Burchell’s Sandgrouse (male)

: Namaqua Sandgrouse

: Common Sandpiper

: Curlew Sandpipers

: Wood Sandpiper

: Bearded Scrub-Robin

: Kalahari Scrub Robin

: Karoo Scrub Robin

: White-browed Scrub Robin

: Secretarybird

: Cape Shoveler

: Crimson-breasted Shrike

: Magpie Shrike

: Male Red-backed Shrike (photo by Joubert)

: Southern White-crowned Shrike

: African Snipe

: Greater Painted Snipe female (photo by Joubert)

: Cape Sparrow male

: House sparrow at Mpila

: Southern Grey-headed Sparrow

: Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark

: Grey-backed Sparrow Lark (male and chick)

: White-browed Sparrow-weaver

: Little Sparrowhawk

: African Spoonbill

: Cape Spurfowl

: Natal Spurfowl

: Red-necked spurfowl

: Swainson’s Spurfowl

: Black-bellied Starling

: Burchell’s Starling

: Cape Glossy Starling

: Common Starling

: Greater Blue-eared Starling

: Meves’s Starling

: Pale-winged Starling

: Pied Starling

: Male Red-Winged Starling

: Violet-backed Starling

: Wattled Starling (male in breeding colours)

: Black-winged Stilt

: African Stonechat male

: Black Stork

: Saddle-billed Stork

: White Stork

: Woolly-necked Stork

: Yellow-billed stork

: Cape Sugarbird

: Gurney’s Sugarbird

: Amethyst Sunbird Female

: Collared Sunbird (male)

: Male Greater Double-collared Sunbird

: Malachite Sunbird

: Marico Sunbird

: Olive Sunbird

: Orange-breasted Sunbird on a Pincushion flower

: Scarlet-chested Sunbird (male)

: Male Southern Double-collared Sunbird

: White-bellied Sunbird

: Greater Striped Swallow

: Lesser Striped Swallow

: Red-breasted Swallow

: White-throated Swallow

: Wire-tailed Swallow

: African Swamphen

: Little Swift reinforcing a nest

: White-rumped Swift

: Black-crowned Tchagra

: Brown-crowned Tchagra

: Blue-billed Teal

: Cape Teal

: Red-billed Teal

: Caspian Tern

: Swift Tern

: Whiskered Tern

: Cape Rock-Thrush (male)

: Groundscraper Thrush

: Karoo Thrush

: Kurrichane Thrush

: Olive Thrush

: Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

: Southern Black Tits

: Narina Trogon

: Knysna Turaco

: Livingstone’s Turaco

: Purple-crested Turaco

: Ruddy Turnstone

: Green Twinspot

: Bearded vulture in flight

: Cape Vulture

: Hooded Vulture

: Lappet-faced Vulture

: Palm-Nut Vulture, Umlalazi Nature Reserve, March 2016

: White-backed Vulture

: White-headed Vulture

: African Pied Wagtail

: Cape Wagtail

: Mountain Wagtail

: African Reed Warbler

: Chestnut-vented Warbler

: Rufous-eared Warbler

: Willow Warbler (photo by Joubert)

: Black-faced Waxbill

: Blue Waxbill

: Common Waxbill

: Swee Waxbill (photo by Joubert)

: Violet-eared Waxbill (photo by Joubert)

: Cape Weaver male

: Dark-backed Weaver

: Male Lesser Masked Weaver

: Red-billed Buffalo Weaver in Satara

: Sociable Weaver

: Southern Masked Weaver

: Spectacled Weaver

: Thick-billed Weaver female

: Village Weaver (male)

: Yellow Weaver

: Capped Wheatear

: Mountain Wheatear

: Common Whimbrel

: Cape White-eye

: Orange River White-eye

: Long-tailed Paradise Whydah

: Pin-tailed whydah

: Fan-tailed Widowbird

: Long-tailed Widowbird

: Red-collared Widowbird

: Green, or Red-billed, Wood-hoopoe

: Bearded Woodpecker

: Bennett’s Woodpecker (male)

: Cardinal Woodpecker

: Golden-tailed Woodpecker

: Ground Woodpecker

: Olive Woodpecker

: Red-throated Wryneck

Mammals

South Africa is home to an estimated 299 kinds of indigenous mammals. These are the species we’ve featured here at de Wets Wild:

: Aardwolf

: Roan Antelope Bull

: Sable antelope

: The big males are the most confident

: Honey Badger

: Epauletted Fruit Bat at Skukuza Airport

: Free-tailed Bats roosting beneath the thatch at Mooiplaas’ ablutions

: Mauritian Tomb Bats

: Blesbok ram

: Bontebok

: Sirheni Bushveld Camp – Buffalo

: The cute and tiny lesser bushbaby

: At night, Skukuza’s bushbabies come out to play

: Bushbuck

: Bushpig boar

: African Wild Cat

: Caracal

: Cheetah on the lookout, Gudzani Road

: African Civet (photo by Joubert)

: Rock Dassie (Hyrax)

: Yellow-spotted Rock Dassie, or Hyrax (photo by Joubert)

: Blue Duiker

: Common Duiker

: Red Duiker

: Eland Bull

: Tembe’s Isilo (2013-05-24)

: Bat-eared Fox

: Gemsbok

: Large-spotted Genet in Tamboti

: Tower of giraffes

: Sharpe’s Grysbok

: Cape Hare

: Scrub Hare

: Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest

: Red Hartebeest

: Hippo posturing

: Pygmy Hippo

: Brown Hyena at the junction of Thuthlwa and Tlou drives in Pilanesberg

: Spotted Hyena

: Impala

: Black-backed Jackal

: Side-striped Jackal

: Dainty klipspringer

: Magnificent Kudu seen near Mavumbye

: Southern Lechwe Ram

: Leopard in golden early morning sunshine

: Kings of Addo, seen near Addo’s new Nyathi Camp

: Meerkat / Suricate

: Banded Mongoose

: Dwarf mongoose in Pretoriuskop

: Cape Grey Mongoose

: Is this how slender mongooses give a “high 5”?

: Yellow Mongoose

: Samango Monkey

: Vervet Monkey

: Four-striped Grass Mouse

: Single-striped Grass Mouse

: Nyala Bull

: Oribi ram

: Scimitar-horned Oryx

: Cape Porcupine

: Bush Karoo Rat

: Mountain reedbuck ram

: Southern Reedbuck are extremely common around Lake Saint Lucia

: Grey Rhebok

: Angry black rhino

: White Rhino

: Cape Fur Seals

: Male Subantarctic Fur Seal on the shore at Cape Vidal after a heavy storm

: Eastern Rock Sengi, or Elephant Shrew, at Lenong Viewpoint in Marakele National Park

: Greater Red Musk Shrew

: Springbok Ram

: Springhare jumping aroun in Bontle Camp after dark

: Eastern Grey Squirrel at the Tokai Picnic Site

: Vegetable matter, like this overripe fruit, is more the traditional food for Ground Squirrels

: Squirrel at Skukuza Day Visitors Area

: Steenbok Ram

: Suni (Photo by Joubert)

: Tsessebe in thornveld vegetation in Ithala Game Reserve

: Warthog

: Waterbuck bull

: Humpback Whale

: Wild Dog alpha pair

: Black wildebeest

: Blue wildebeest

: Cape Mountain Zebra

: Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra

: Plains Zebra trying to trip an opponent

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Rainsinn April 13, 2018 at 6:39 am

Wow!!! Amazing captures…. Most of these birds are new to me. Thank you for sharing this 🙂

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorApril 13, 2018 at 9:30 am
  
  Glad we could introduce you, and welcome here!
  
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imlostwithoutme August 3, 2016 at 9:11 pm

So beautiful captures! I can’t get enough of your blogposts! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by my blog. Glad to come across your blog, de Wets Wild! 🙂

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorAugust 4, 2016 at 3:35 am
  
  Thank you so much for coming to visit us, and for leaving us such a kind and generous compliment!
  
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aj vosse March 31, 2016 at 8:19 am

How about one butterfly, just one, on the list? 😉

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorMarch 31, 2016 at 9:51 am
  
  Eendag kom kuier ek n hele week vir jou AJ, dan gaan ons deur al my fotos en help jy my al die skoenlappers uitken 😀
  
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  1. aj vosse March 31, 2016 at 9:56 am
    
    Kling woes!! Dink nou net… mense vra wat het jy gedoen vir die week… jy sê… ons het gesuip, baklei… rowe vroumense rond gejaag… gebraai en nog meer gesuip! Net ondat niemand jou sal glo as jy hulle vertel ons het skoenlappers uitgeken nie!! 😈
    
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  2. de Wets Wild Post authorMarch 31, 2016 at 10:05 am
    
    Ek is te soet, niemand wat my ken sal die rowwe storie glo nie… 😉
    
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  3. aj vosse March 31, 2016 at 10:08 am
    
    Ek’s seker ek kan jou arm draai vir ‘n braai?? 😉 Ons kan oor skoenlapper gesels orr die vlamme??
    
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  4. de Wets Wild Post authorMarch 31, 2016 at 10:10 am
    
    Daar is altyd tyd vir n braai of sewe!
    
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  5. aj vosse March 31, 2016 at 10:11 am
    
    So moet ‘n bek praat!! 😉
    
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Mary Strong-Spaid December 7, 2014 at 4:57 am

Incredible tusks on this elephant!

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorDecember 8, 2014 at 3:46 am
  
  Beautiful, isn’t he Mary? He was called “Masbambela”.
  
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aaanchalk July 16, 2014 at 11:59 am

Amazing Amazing Amazing is the world. Me and my husband both os us are fascinated with wildlife and have Africa Wild Safari tour as one of the item in our bucket list. I guess there is still time for that, in meanwhile we will be seeing that world through your blog.

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Aanchal

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorJuly 16, 2014 at 1:00 pm
  
  Thank you for joining us Aanchal – hopefully our blog will be just the convincing you need to get that African safari under your belt!
  
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sonyaliraphotography February 6, 2014 at 1:53 am

I love Elephants and this image is amazing.

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorFebruary 6, 2014 at 4:15 am
  
  Thank you very much Sonya and thanks for joining us here at de Wets Wild!
  
  This beautiful old bull was called Masbambela. Over time we dedicated three special posts to him and other large tuskers that call South Africa’s wild places home, that you as a lover of elephants might enjoy:
  
  Masbambela
  Isilo of Tembe
  Kruger’s Big Tuskers
  
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MRI January 21, 2014 at 4:13 am

Love your blog! I just planned a trip to Kenya for this summer, which will be my first ever African Safari experience, and your pictures have just got me more and more excited 🙂

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorJanuary 21, 2014 at 5:46 am
  
  We’re glad to hear that our blog has made you look forward to your Kenya trip even more! Welcome here at de Wets Wild MRI, and thanks for joining us.
  
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littledogslaughed January 18, 2014 at 7:42 pm

Love this image-the b/w really works wonderfully here!

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorJanuary 18, 2014 at 8:00 pm
  
  Thanks Meg! He was named “Masbambela”, one of the most beautiful animals you could ever imagine seeing…
  
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Fraukje January 11, 2014 at 3:18 pm

Amazing! Love your pics and love your lifestyle even more. Glad I found your blog!

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorJanuary 11, 2014 at 4:54 pm
  
  We’re very happy to have you join us Fraukje!
  
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Freud Fission Chips January 8, 2014 at 5:27 pm

What an admirable image – biggest tusks I’ve ever seen.
Looking forward to visiting your blog again – and again. Thank you for the inspiration to get my travels in print.

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorJanuary 8, 2014 at 7:09 pm
  
  Glad you like what you found here at de Wets Wild F F C! You’re welcome to come visit with us anytime!
  
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Sreejith Nair January 8, 2014 at 8:23 am

Nice shot, and I was wondering how close you managed to go to this giant…

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorJanuary 8, 2014 at 8:32 am
  
  Thanks Sreejith!
  
  His name is Masbambela, and he was one of the Kruger National Park’s biggest tuskers. You can read all about our encounter with Masbambela here:
  
  Masbambela
  
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suburbanferndaleark December 1, 2013 at 5:11 am

Quite the majestic fellow!

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorDecember 1, 2013 at 8:36 am
  
  a Gentle Giant, if ever there was one!
  
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Gayle Alstrom November 16, 2013 at 2:15 pm

beautiful guy.

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1. de Wets Wild Post authorNovember 16, 2013 at 6:12 pm
  
  We agree, thanks Gayle. His name was Masbambela, and we dedicated a special blogpost to him some months ago: https://dewetswild.com/2013/02/01/weekly-photo-challenge-unique/
  
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