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Monday, February 7, 2011

Zebra Pair Drinking Water in Photo

Zebra pair drinking at waterhole
Caption: A zebra pair (Equus quagga) keep an eye out for predators as they bend forward to drink from a waterhole in the Mkhuze Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. © Scotch Macaskill

Camera: Canon EOS 35mm film camera using Fuji slide film; Lens: Canon EOS 80-200 F2.8 Zoom.

Location: Mkhuze Game Reserve (also called Mkuzi or Mkuze Game Reserve), situated in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, was proclaimed a protected area in 1912. The 40,000-hectare is renowned as a mecca for bird watchers, with a bird list well in excess of four hundred. Predominantly flat and dry, with sandy ridges which are ancient dunes, it harbours an astonishing diversity of natural habitats. These range from the eastern slopes of the Lebombo mountains which lie along its western boundry, to broad stretches of gently rolling acacia savannah, swamps and a variety of woodlands and riverine forest.

This diversity of habitats means a wide variety of animal species including black and white rhinoceros, elephant, giraffe, nyala, blue wildebeest, warthog, eland, hippo, impala, kudu and other smaller antelope. Rare species occurring in the reserve are cheetah, hyena, suni and leopard.

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