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Caracal focused on the hunt in Addo Elephant Park, South Africa

Caracal focused on the hunt in Addo Elephant Park, South Africa

Caracal are normally nocturnal animals so it was rather unusual and extremely exciting to come across my very first one in the wild, during the early morning. <...
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Caracal are normally nocturnal animals so it was rather unusual and extremely exciting to come across my very first one in the wild, during the early morning.

All of my images on this website and others are protected by International Copyright Law, with all my rights reserved. These images my not be copied, reproduced, manipulated or or used in any way, without first obtaining the written consent of Brian Basson Photography.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III

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Aperture f/6.3 ISO 100 Shutter 1/320 Focal Length 600/1

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Jul, 2015

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472

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+47

Awards

Top Choice

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Peer Award

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Superb Composition

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Magnificent Capture

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don't believe I've seen this one before. Fabulous capture. It looks ready to pounce!

What a great find....I've never seen one

Great oneBrian

awesome capture Brian

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Amazing find first time I have ever seen one, thanks for all the information with your magnificent African wildlife photography:-)

Great find

rooikat! love these animals! farmers hate them! pity!

Beuatiful, that attention...

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Male giraffes will engage in necking to establish dominance.
They use their necks as weapons in combat, a behavior known as

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Fields of lavender from horizon to horizon, as far as the eye can see. No, this is not France but Tasmania, Aus

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Photo taken in the Tuli Safari Area, Botswana.
A large cat, with a powerfully-built body and comparatively short

Came across this owl chick in a fork in a tree in our base camp, while on safari in Botswana. For me, it was heaven sent as I could at long last satis

Giant Eagle Owl - South Africa

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Location: Tuli Safari Area, NE Botswana

This photo was taken at Mabula Game Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Red Hot Pokers occur naturally in all the nine provinces of South Africa. Kwa-Zulu Natal possesses the highest number of Kniphofia species, compared t

Green Tree Frog Portrait © Brian Basson Photography

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Shot taken in Makuze Game Reserve, South Africa June, 2016.

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Oribi Gorge is situated along the spectacular forest-cloaked ravine of the Mzimkulwana river just west of Port Shepstone which itself is 120 km south

Cheetah on the Hunt in Botswana © Brian Basson

The mopane caterpillar, is an important source of protein for millions of indigenous Southern Africans. Wikipedia

Mopane (sometimes spelled Mopani)

3,400 m above sea level and the tree line.

These two shepherds were high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho, southern Africa.

Dirt Road Botswana © Brian Basson 2014

In the past 5 years 250,000 of these amazing cats have been killed for fashion. In the past 50 years the leopard population has declined from 700,000

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