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Mount Meru viewed from Njiro in Arusha. Unlike any tourist whose been here for 5 minutes I still haven't gotten to climb that beauty. But I shall summit thee I oathe it. (at Mount Meru, Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfB62jnqwaC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Silver-striped hawk moth caterpillar. It uses big yellow smileystyle fake-eyes to scare potential predators into believing it is larger and more snake-like. The actual head is teeny weeny, but looks much more mean 🙄 (at Tarangire National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce_Jh2MKA5M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Saw this stunning white-barred emperor at @rivertrees_country_inn this morning. (at Rivertrees Country Inn) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce0FJw9KtjU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Watching the migration of 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearsi) triggers more questions the longer you look at them. In their overall movement, they follow the food: the green nutritious mid-length grass, even anticipating where the next batch will grow by moving towards the smell of rain and the sound of thunder in the distance (they can hear it from up to 25 km!) "knowing" that this is where the next batch of grass will grow. Yet it's strange to see them walk so orderly in single file: Wildebeest have pedal glands between their hooves. As they walk they can explicitly leave a scent track to follow - much like ants do with pheromones. Following wildebeest can walk with their head down and navigate by scent much like we can drive by GPS and follow invisible routes where we have never been. @wayoafrica @natgeowild #natgeo @raw_africa_ #tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #africa #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning #raw_africa_ #wildlife #wild #wildlifephotography #wildlifeonearth #wildlifephotographer #wildanimals #wildebeest #keystonespecies (at Serengeti National Park Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcMyN3eqsuc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This fellow had his eye on us from about 6 meters up. While leopards are often found dwelling in trees, they are remarkably successful in tree poor Serengeti. They are incredibly hard to find on safaris, but are actually the only big cat that is still widely distributed across most of Africa, the Middle-East, Asia and (the panther) in South-America. Extremely adaptable to different environments, they are able to hunt and eat a wide variety of prey and able to live close to humans using their superior camouflage and sneakiness to roam mainly at night. @wayoafrica @natgeowild #natgeo @raw_africa_ #tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #africa #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning #raw_africa_ #wildlife #wild #wildlifephotography #wildlifeonearth #wildlifephotographer #wildanimals #leopard (at Serengeti National Park Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcKZemvKLVT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Pure central Serengeti without tourists. Overwhelming. charming. vaaaast. Loving the low season. @wayoafrica #tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning #raw_africa_ (at Naabi Hill Gate Serengeti) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb5EUtaKF03/?utm_medium=tumblr

#tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning #raw_africa_

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Surprising how many of our best walking guides are missing lower legs 🤔 WAYO advanced training course @ Naabi camp @wayoafrica @natgeowild #natgeo @raw_africa_ #tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning #africa (at Naabi Hill Gate Serengeti) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbvJ1d0KIaV/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Don't be fooled by its teeny size and subordinate posture. The praying mantis posing in front of my punching bag is a fierce predator unafraid of grabbing much bigger prey such as spiders, frogs, lizards and even small birds. They happily cannibalize other mantis. During mating, femmes fatales are prone to bite off and devour the males' head. Chances are 1 in 5. - would you take it? (at Arusha, Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbparVgKRZN/?utm_medium=tumblr

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At barely 7 kg Kirk's dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) is one of the smallest antilopes out in the Serengeti. Supercute features are a lifelong romantic dedication and proximity to its mate, big manga eyes, a preorbital gland to leave little smell treasures you can find on tufts of grass and the ABILITY TO MOVE ITS NOSE! it's almost like an antilope-sized Sengi 😍 @wayoafrica @natgeowild #natgeo @raw_africa_ #tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning #raw_africa_ #raw_birds #wildlife #wild #wildlifephotography #wildlifeonearth #wildlifephotographer #wildanimals #safari #africa #dikdik #sengi (at Lake Ndutu Ngorongoro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbhnZa6q38h/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The African scops owl (Otus senegalensis) is a true master of camouflage, often indistinguishable from the tree bark she is sitting against. She is one of the smaller owls feeding mainly on arthropods. . . . . . @wayoafrica @natgeowild #natgeo @raw_africa_ #tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning #raw_africa_ #raw_birds #wildlife #wild #wildlifephotography #wildlifeonearth #wildlifephotographer #wildanimals #wildlifephoto #photography #photo @birds.nature @best_birds_planet @birdsonearth @earth_wildlife2020 @wildgeographyy @waowafrica @your_best_birds #owl #scopsowl (at Sanctuary Swala) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbXloKZq-vR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The gaze of a young hunter. Have you noticed how predators eyes are front-facing and herbivores tend to be more directed to the sides? Predators need binocular vision - focus on one prey animal, gage distance, check every detail and stay on it through the hunt. Herbivore eyes have a wider angle and function as a general alert system: is there any lion in the vicinity running towards me? The details matter less - just run. @wayoafrica @natgeowild #natgeo @raw_africa_ #tanzania #serengeti #adventure #safari #raw #wild #wildlife #nature #geniusnature #outdoors #bushlife #guide #trails #trainer #training #education #wayo #lifeislearning (at Serengeti National Park Tanzania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbMmI3QKIb5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Advanced birding

When I was 12 I had a fascination with raptors. Whenever I saw one, I would look up and claim it was an eagle. But I never really knew which and had no binoculars. But there was nobody to correct me :-)

Upon starting my nature guiding course I would stop the car, point at a feathery thing and in awe claim "bird". But I was now surrounded by aspiring guides many of whom were avid birders. And so they would roll their eyes, or laugh at me or help me to ID them (it was usually a common bulbul).

Yet well until my level 1, I lived in fear of my assessor asking me "hey what bird is that?". Only over time I discovered that birding - as it is now called and becoming quite popular - is learnable! So I would just keep looking at every bird through my 1.5 kg 7x42 Zeiss lead glass binoculars. And still I would need to compare them in a bird book or an app and get them wrong. I must have asked my instructors "hey what bird is that?" or just guessed wrong a million times. The instructors would barely glimpse at the bird and just "know".

It's not that they just have high definition eyeballs, but that over time it turns out you develop a method, an intuition. And you see a detail. The body shape, the way is flies, the color of the beak, feathers on the legs, a wattle somewhere around, the wing coloration, habitat, and maybe most importantly: their calls.

The final exercise in Eco Training is "Advanced Birding". It is also the only exam that a grand majority of students fail. And understandably so: You need to ID around 200 birds, both from a photo and seperately from an audio sample of their call.

What seems impossible at first becomes a fun game. I have found the best way to learn bird calls is to study in a group and develop odd common stories that connect sound and name. As far as memory goes the more absurd, violent and sexual your associations, the better. I am still not always right, but I will get a decent educated guess.

And mother of god, not only did I pass the exam :-) I really enjoyed this last week of birding! My excitment would have nerded me out a year ago: But we saw rare beauties like the crowned eagle, striped kingfisher, Trumpeter hornbills, Arnot's chat, purple heron, the racket-tailed roller and even the impossibly rare Pels fishing owl.

Boy did we see some beautiful flying by black-chested snake-eagles. And wow did I get excited and rude when I saw a Lanner falcon.

BUT I am still looking for another lifer (bird you have never seen) - for more than a year I have been searching everywhere for my peregrine falcon - the fastest animal in the world as it crash dives into other birds at >330 km/h, effectively disintegrating them only to then catch and devour them in the air.

#birding #geek #lifer #birds #africa #wild #nature #wildlife #animal #outdoors #adventure #guiding #explore #makuleke #south-africa

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