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  • Hippo 'yawning' as a threat display
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  • Hippo 'yawning' as a threat display
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  • Hippo 'yawning' as a threat display
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  • To the first-time safari-goer, the hippopotamus may seem like a big, fat, unattractive, lazy – and boring -  creature, which spends most of its time lolling around in the water doing nothing. However, few people know that there is a more dynamic and spectacular side to these enormous artiodactyls. The unrivalled territoriality of this semi-aquatic quadruped often translates into an unbelievably short-tempered and aggressive personality. Particularly, the males are continuously fighting each other for dominance and territory. A hippo’s continuous ‘yawning’ is not really to express sleepiness; rather the size of its teeth to warn off intruders and contestants! Splashing water by shaking its massive head is another warning sign and definitely not innocent play!
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  • Baobab alley at sunset
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  • grazing zebu at the baobabs alley
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  • Young girl walking on the baobab avenue
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  • Baobabs and lilies at sunset
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  • Silhouette of a grandidier's baobab at dusk
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  • Hippos in water covered with bright green water plants
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  • Territorial Hippopotamus showing off.
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  • Malagasy girl picking water lilies at baobab alley
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  • Silhouette of a grandidier's baobab at dusk
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  • Elephant cow approaching
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  • Scorpion ready to attack, at night lit by torch
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  • Territorial hippopotamus surfacing and spraying water
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  • Territorial hippopotamus surfacing and spraying water
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  • Territorial hippopotamus surfacing and spraying water
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  • Territorial hippopotamus surfacing and spraying water
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  • Young hippopotamus showing off
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  • Two towering Granddidier's baobabs with inscriptions at baobab alley
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
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  • Malagasy girl picking water lilies at baobab alley
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
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  • Tourists walking on Baobabs Alley at sunset with lily strewn rice field in the foreground.<br />
(Fujifilm/Getaway competition 2008, Certificate in the People in Nature Category)
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  • Baobab alley at sunset
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  • Silhouette of grandidier's baobabs at sunset
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  • Looking down baobab alley at dawn
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  • Territorial Hippopotamus showing off.
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  • Hippos in water covered with bright green water plants
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  • Territorial hippopotamus surfacing and spraying water
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  • Elephant bull having fun in the water.
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  • Hippopotamus showing off.
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  • Malagasy girls trading water lilies for sweets at baobab alley
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  • Two towering Granddidier's baobabs with inscriptions at baobab alley
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  • grazing zebu at the baobabs alley
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  • Baobabs and lilies at sunset
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  • Young girl walking on the baobab avenue
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  • Baobabs and lilies at sunset
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  • Baobabs landscape
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  • Baobab alley baobabs, lilies and textured sky at sunset
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  • Baobab alley at sunset
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  • Tourists walking on Baobabs Alley at sunset with lily strewn rice field in the foreground
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  • Silhouette of grandidier's baobabs at sunset
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  • Territorial Hippopotamus showing off.
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  • Territorial Hippopotamus showing off.
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  • Young hippopotamus showing off
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  • Young hippopotamus showing off
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  • Young hippopotamus showing off
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  • And the type of advance to be wary of when the female happens to be an elephant!<br />
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Generally elephant bulls are very tolerant and allow close approach, as long as they are not in musth and as long as you respect them and don't piss them off that is, but females of a breeding herd are a totally different story and need to be treated with much more care. Our boat drifting close to the shore quite far from a herd already prompted this female to approach us head on to show how big she is and to warn us off. Staying humble and calm luckily kept her calm too.
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  • Malagasy kids swimming in a pond near baobab alley
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
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  • Man walking on the baobab avenue
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  • Man walking on the baobab avenue
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  • Baobabs and lilies alley at sunset
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  • Zebu cattle under a baobab
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  • Zebu cattle under a baobab
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  • Baobab alley at sunset
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  • Man walking on the baobab avenue
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  • Young girl walking on the baobab avenue
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  • Alerted Hippos in the Okavango Delta waters
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  • Territorial hippopotamus surfacing and spraying water
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  • Big water splash made by a plunging hippopotamus
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  • Elephant bull having fun in the water.
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  • The famous baobab alley
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  • Baobabs and lilies at sunset
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  • Baobab alley baobabs, lilies and textured sky at sunset
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  • Baobab alley at sunset
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  • Baobab alley at sunset
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  • Silhouette of a grandidier's baobab at dusk
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  • Sunrise on a baobab straddled horizon
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  • Baobab trees in landscape
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  • A towering Granddidier's baobabs at baobab alley
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  • Rainbow in baobab landscape
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  • View of the famous baobab avenue at dusk
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  • Spectacular dawn at baobab alley
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  • Spectacular dawn at baobab alley
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  • The African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) at the Boulders' Beach Colony in Simons Town are amazingly approachable. Once extremely numerous, the African penguin is tragically declining due to a combination of threats and is classified as endangered.
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  • The African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) at the Boulders' Beach Colony in Simons Town are amazingly approachable. Once extremely numerous, the African penguin is tragically declining due to a combination of threats and is classified as endangered.
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