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Animal PortraitsSome animal portraits from my recent visit to game reserves in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Note that all the animals shown are in the wild, not zoos. They are living in their natural habitat.
You do not want to mess with this fellow, an aging male Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) also known as a Dugga Boy. While most Cape Buffalo hang out in herd of up to 500, the older males who are past their reproductive and physical prime tend to move out of a herd and wander in small bachelor herds of 2- 5. "Dugga" means mud, and the preferred occupation of a Dugga Boy is the wallow in mud pools. Dugga Boys are extremely dangerous animals, those in a main herd simply being dangerous. Apart from lions and humans, a Dugga Boy has no predator capable of bringing it down and even lions are very wary of attacking such a beast. Any human who unwittingly comes close is likely to be charged and gored to death.

Compared to the Dugga Boy a lion (Pant

Description
Animal PortraitsSome animal portraits from my recent visit to game reserves in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Note that all the animals shown are in the wild, not zoos. They are living in their natural habitat.
You do not want to mess with this fellow, an aging male Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) also known as a Dugga Boy. While most Cape Buffalo hang out in herd of up to 500, the older males who are past their reproductive and physical prime tend to move out of a herd and wander in small bachelor herds of 2- 5. "Dugga" means mud, and the preferred occupation of a Dugga Boy is the wallow in mud pools. Dugga Boys are extremely dangerous animals, those in a main herd simply being dangerous. Apart from lions and humans, a Dugga Boy has no predator capable of bringing it down and even lions are very wary of attacking such a beast. Any human who unwittingly comes close is likely to be charged and gored to death.

Compared to the Dugga Boy a lion (Pant