Cannundrums

Classification of giraffes is quite complicated. Traditionally giraffes were considered to be one species with nine subspecies as follows: (...

There are three species of zebra: (1) Grevy's zebra, which we saw in Buffalo Springs NR in Kenya (post on August 24, 2014 ); (2) the mou...

We were in Kidepo Valley NP in northern Uganda in July of this year and saw several jackals which were identified to us as side-striped jack...

The kob is an antelope found in Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. There are three subspecies of kob: (1) The white-ea...

My son Sam sounded surprised when I told him I'd never seen a hairy woodpecker. I'd heard of them, but knew nothing about them. I go...

My prior two posts have dealt with woodpeckers I saw because my son, Sam, had directed me to where he'd found them. Prior to those woodp...