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		<title>Elephant Roadblock (Kruger Park)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 14:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcel Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 2008. It was hot! About 32 degrees and no wind at all. The region we were driving through was dry and dusty. We were on route to Shingwedzi camp and it was around 3 pm]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife – Rhino Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing the difference between the two rhinocerous species in Africa could save your life if you are faced with either of these magnificent animals. Read this and other rhino facts ...]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife – African Elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Elephant is the largest land mammal, with mature bulls reaching a record weight of 7 tons (15 400 lbs.). Elephant cows average two and a half metres tall and three tons. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife – African Lions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lion is the epitome of a carnivore. Records show that lion have taken rabbits, tortoises, porcupines, pangolins, aardvarks, birds, warthog, bushpig and crocodiles.]]></description>
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		<title>Orpen Bush Walk (Kruger Park)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the hot, baking sun we drudged ourselves, albeit rather willingly, behind two armed game rangers from Orpen Camp in the Kruger National Park. Our guides, Carol and Thomas, had fetched us in their open game-drive vehicle from the ablution facilities at Tamboti Tented Camp where we were staying. After introducing themselves and giving us a briefing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-drive (Tips) Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my birthday, Marcel and I headed out to Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, about 40-min drive from Leopard Walk Lodge where we were staying. We arrived nice and early as the gates opened, and after signing in, we were rewarded with a lovely sighting of warthogs right at the gates. What a fab start to the game drive! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife – The Little Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "Big 5" is well-known, but what of the "Little 5"? Leopard Tortoise, Rhinoceros Beetle, Ant Lion, Buffalo Weaver and Elephant Shrew ... read facts about this wildlife.]]></description>
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		<title>Wildlife – Leopard Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A leopard female spends roughly half her time with the cubs and half away, hunting and feeding. Thus from the beginning the cubs become adapted to long periods of fasting interrupted by periods of gorging themselves. Read more leopard facts ...]]></description>
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		<title>Let Elephants Keep Their Ivory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 11:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Koning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a video message asking CITES members to let elephants keep their ivory. Dame Daphne Sheldrick shares her views on the ivory trade and the effects of poaching. ]]></description>
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		<title>African Elephant Folklore and Myths</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great deal of mythical folklore surrounds these magnificent giants of the bush. A few of these legends are worthy of being recounted, however the origin of these myths have become quite unclear over the years, and no specific tribe of people can be directly credited with them. The most likely source though, would appear [...]]]></description>
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