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02 Dec

Your Weekly African Picture Story – week 24

Being so familiar with Africa’s wildlife, when I heard that India had more wildlife species than Africa, I just had to get back there. When I finally made the trip this past October 2016, I made a conscious decision not to google or research it, content with delighting in what I saw, ‘cos that’s the feeling I get when in discovery mode. I felt curiously at home. It wasn’t the stories of corruption in local newspapers, but rather the lapwings, ibises, leopards, hogs, crocodiles and antelope, species common to my southern African home in physical surroundings that were occasionally very familiar. The reason ? The Indian subcontinent was apparently not geographically connected with the rest of Asia until about 40 million years ago. Before then it was part of the super continent of Gondwanaland, but more of that next week. While taking a break from our tiger-search in Panna Tiger Reserve, having a snack overlooking a gorge-plus-waterfall with my new Hungarian photographer-buddy Gabor, we came across a pair of long-billed vultures building their nest on the cliffs below us. The one was collecting branches from a forested area below us to the left. Each time it returned to its ‘construction site’, it would hug the cliffs, disappearing under overhangs, almost as if giving us the vulturine finger. This made focusing with a 500mm handheld a touch challenging.

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