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Awesome sighting and photograph Sharifa!

This looks like a large grey mongoose to me as well. Very great find for Kruger. Bergendal habitat would be right for this species and southern african mammal books I looked at suggest it occurs close to the southern tip of Kruger.

Thanks for the welcome O-dog.

Yep, got a few duiker and bushbuck visiting my garden regularly. They are amazing little antelope if you take the time to watch and appreciate them.

This buck looks like a Grey Rhebok. To large for a steenbok.

@ Sharifa

Your mongoose is a Slender Mongoose. Take a look at the tail tip, that's your key. The black tip.

I took this photo during my recent visit in Punda Maria (Safari Tent No 7). A few years ago, one would positively identify it as the Large-spotted Genet (the black tip of the tail used to be the "give away"). Lately "A Guide to the Mammals of Southern Africa - Burger Cillie" mentions that this species is now divided into two species - the mentioned "Large-spotted Genet" (Genetta tigrina) and the "Rusty-spotted Genet" (Genetta maculata). The mentioned book also shows a distribution map for the two species. And according to this map it appears that the Rusty-spotted Genet is the one to be found in Kruger (together with the Small-spotted Genet which is much more wide-spread through Southern Africa. But the one we saw in Punda (a total of 4) looks more like the Large-spotted Genet to me. Can somebody maybe give clarity on this?

superb picture, superb Genet (Large-spotted Genet for me too)
but can't give you clarity... sorry

Wow...must be great to have a garden with visitors like that




No not true, Large Grey Mongoose also has black tip to the tail. Its a well known species up here in the Okavango. The experts here also say LGM. Look at other features as well apart from just the tip of the tail.

I have to agree, it's a LGM for sure.

thanks for all this explanations

Hello!!
Please, I need help with this squirrel, because I doubt that kind can be treated.
During my trip I saw hundreds of Paraxerus cepapi, but this I found very different both morphologically and their ways.
You think that might be a Paraxerus palliatus or some other species?

Thank you very much.

Hi Spanishwolf

Where was this pic taken?

Hello ross.
Its taken in kruger. In the S3 road, near of Pretoriuskop.
I find most strange, because I dont saw other squirrels in differents checklists of the park, only Paraxerus cepapi

Remember that there is known to be variance within the species.

Could someone help with a colour for this Rhino (grey doesn't count). Sure you all know what I am hoping for despite the terrain. Especially the last pic with what appears to an open mouth gives the hope. Didn't eat from either grass or trees while we watched. Ithala Game Reserve, KZN, August 2011. Quality is poor due distance and heathaze so not many details.





Thanks in advance, Michael

Blach rhino