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Rosemary's avatar

Hi Steve, forgive your mother's ignorance - but what is a caracal? I liked the photograph of the

Buffalo bull in the trees - the detail was wonderful. Entertaining story about the Egret - would

have been quite scary if he was of the cat family !!

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Steven "Real Safari" Lang's avatar

Hi Rosie - thank-you for your encouragement, I appreciate it.

I wish I had been able to take a picture of the caracal. I did have a (not very good) one that I took years ago.

In Afrikaans the caracal is called a rooikat. It is sort of halfway in size between a leopard and a house cat. It has little tufts on its ears.

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Steven "Real Safari" Lang's avatar

Hi Rosie - thank-you for your encouragement, I appreciate it.

I wish I had been able to take a picture of the caracal. I did have a (not very good) one that I took years ago.

In Afrikaans the caracal is called a rooikat. It is sort of halfway in size between a leopard and a house cat. It has little tufts on its ears.

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Elysoun Ross's avatar

I enjoy your chatty post about the animals you see.

I wonder why that egret adopted you.

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Steven "Real Safari" Lang's avatar

Thank-you for your kind words. I am hoping that the more conversational approach is enjoyable to read.

I have absolutely no idea why the egret followed us. It has never happened before. It was fun and amusing but I also felt a little bad for the fella.

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