The moment on the quad bike when you decide it's probably time to drive on. 🦏🦏🦏🦏
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Rock hyraxes have miniature tusk-like incisors (they are related to elephants), which come in handy for scratching those itches.
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South Africa has dramatic light for its dramatic animals. 🌅🐘🦁🦭🦛🌈
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When a male ostrich gets pink legs and pink "lipstick", you know it's about time for ostrich lovin'. 💋
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Mammals big and small, far and near: a terrible video of two iconic South African beasts - a southern right #whale and a rock hyrax.
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Some Excellent South African Birds:
🦉 Spotted eagle owl.
🍬 Cape sugarbird.
🪡 Cape weaver (and its nest).
🌌 Speckled pigeon.
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White #rhinos are famously grazers (grass-eaters), and have wide square lips to help them crop short grass, while black rhinos have pointed lips for browsing on shrubs, BUT... here we have some rule-breaking white rhinos clearly browsing shrubs. 🦏🌿
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Delighted to share that we won the Cambridge Research Impact Awards (Climate & Nature) for our experiment with Nature Perspectives to test if enabling @zoologymuseum.bsky.social visitors to have AI-powered chats with specimens deepened their engagement with nature.
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The African horn collection:
- Buffalo: classic🤵
- Eland: no nonsense 🤺
- Black wildebeest: bike handles🚲
- Klipspringer: bebe👶
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The hippo at the end of the rainbow 🌈🦛
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Looking majestic with a full blow-dry effect. 💨🦁
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A weaverbird weaving in the wind.
Here's the very start of the process of a Cape weaver building its nest of knotted reeds between two stems. The final result will be an intricate protective sphere around the size of a large grapefruit.
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Meet the tiny tilcayo - the first new species of cat to be described in over a century. This Bolivian micro-cat was identified from an individual that had once been a family pet. 🐈 #cats
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The klipspringer should be everyone's favourite #antelope: they're the size of a small dog, have the face of a teddy with tiny spike-horns, and they walk on the tips of cylindrical hooves that grip the rocks they live among (their name means "rock-jumper" in Afrikaans). #MammalWatching #SouthAfrica

That face you pull when a kid jumps on you unexpectedly.
#CapeFurSeals #MammalWatching #SouthAfrica #seals

It's amazing that perhaps the world's best place to see an awesome wild cat - the caracal - is right on the edge of a big city. Climbed #TableMountain today from #CapeTown with a tiny hope of seeing one, & was delighted to find some poo. Half the joy of #MammalWatching is just knowing they're there

Meet the bontebok, an #antelope that is only found in the fynbos habitat of the Western Cape of #SouthAfrica. All surviving bonteboks are descended from a population of just 22 individuals, which were saved in 1931 by being fenced into the newly created Bontebok National Park.
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Big brawny baboon boss. 🐒💪
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No offence to #birds in general, but #penguins are such good animals that they're basically honorary #mammals. 🐧🌍
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Got a lot of love for South Africa's rock hyraxes - they are giving serious #wombat vibes.
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