Tiny Critters

The Golden Orb Web Spider is not the largest spider, but makes the largest and strongest web. It gets its name from the golden colour of its silk

The silk is so strong that it can trap small birds, which the spider doesn't eat. These trapped creatures often destroy the web by thrashing around. To avoid such damage, the spider often leaves a line of insect husks on its web (like the safety strip across glass doors!); or builds smaller barrier webs around the main web

The Water Monitor is capable of growing up to 3.21 metres in length, with the average size of most adults at 1.5 metres long. Maximum weight of can  be over 25 kilograms, but most are half that size.

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Photos by Steve Everett

Watch the Water Level

Elephants drink on average about 160L of water a day. 

These bulls are in the early 20's. - 

Photos by Steve Everett

Flying Serval

 

  

Photos by Steve Everett

 Servals are characterized by tawny, black-spotted coats and a long neck and legs to see over savanna grasses. They have large ears and an acute sense of hearing Servals eat a great variety of prey including rodents, birds, reptiles, frogs and insects. They catch much of their prey by leaping high into the air and pouncing but have also been seen reaching into burrows with their long forelimbs, or hooking fish out of water.

Majestic Young Lions on Nambiti

 Photos by Steve 

  

The Day of the Hippo

 Just another morning for the hippo and the cattle egret.
The hippo feeding on the grass and the reeds and the cattle egret waiting for a poor bug to be unsettled so it can catch it in mid flight.

Photos by Ranger Steve and blog by Inge

A Zebra's Stripes are like our Finger Prints - No Zebra has the same stripes

The Chameleon - Photo by Ranger JP

The Chameleon

Uniquely adapted for climbing and visual hunting, 

Chameleons have the most distinctive eyes of any reptile. The upper and lower eyelids are joined, with only a pinhole large enough for the pupil to see through. They can rotate and focus separately to observe two different objects simultaneously; this lets their eyes move independently from each other. This gives them a full 360-degree arc of vision around their body