The fridge and food cupboard are enclosed in sturdy ire mesh to protect against monkeys, baboons and honey badgers

This verve monkey appeared as soon as I started unpackng my food and I had to tell him ]fairly sternly that no, he was not allowed to leap into the food cupboard

Hippo with ox-peckers of back, crocodile and terrapins

A pir of amorous warthogs just after dawn

The ground hornbill, far bigger than the other hornbills. There’s public call to report any seen with coloured bands pn their legs, burt the two I saw were unbanded

A female kudu reaching up for levels

On my last journey out of Tamboti a leopard crossed the road in front of me and headed off into the bush

I always love watching baboons

Cheetah

Lion feasting on a giraffe that had slipped and drowned i a waterhole. The giraffe was pulled from the water by a tractor but too late to save it.

Budhbaby

Civet

Hyena: I had heard them calling the night before