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Botswana Wildlife Behaviour
 A Wildlife Guide
This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains why Botswana is considered one of Africa's premier wildlife countries and great choice for African safaris...
[more information] About Snakes
Snakes are a huge part of the psyche of humankind, striking irrational fear into the minds of most people. Growing up on a farm where snakes were a part of daily life...
[more information] Animal Behaviour - Human Impact
Animal Behaviour changes over time to adapt to changing climatic and situational changes and today the human impact is felt mostly when it comes to animal behaviour changes...
[more information] Animal Behavioural Influences
Throughout history animals have been affected by environmental factors, with some species dying out and others adapting to the changes and becoming stronger...
[more information] Animal Deformities
The general view of African wildlife is one of healthy animals roaming the plains, with the sick and wounded not surviving, but there are many cases of animals overcoming deformities...
[more information] Animal Infanticide
Many aspects of wildlife behavior do not fit the African safari beauty of glossy brochures, with animal infanticide being particularly gruesome...
[more information] Animal Language
This Botswana Wildlife Guide talks about communication patterns of wildlife species - from warning calls to Elephants emitting ultra-sonic sounds...
[more information] Animal Movement
This Botswana Wildlife Guide gives ideas about why animals are moving. It explains zebra migrations, nomadism and the role of competition...
[more information] Animal Senses - Hearing
If an animal has small or large ears or pinnae depends on its habitat. This Botswana Wildlife Guide about the hearing sense of animals explains why Kudus...
[more information] Animal Senses - Sight
This Botswana Wildlife Guide about the animal sense of sight shows how the animal's developed eyes are needed for moving, finding food and avoiding danger...
[more information] Animal Senses - Smell
The sense of smell is widely used in animal bevaviour. This Botswana Wildlife Guide shows how wildlife can detect food, competitors, sexual readiness...
[more information] Animals Using Tools
Although once presumed to be only the preserve of a human, animals are now known to use assistance in the form of physical objects such as twigs and rocks when feeding...
[more information] Art of Animal Dung
Animal dung, so often overlooked when on safari in Africa, can provide researchers with a great deal of information regarding the feeding habits of animals, and provide fascination for tourists...
[more information] Baboon Sexuality
Baboons are fascinating to watch and on many occasions they have provided a highlight during game drives. I have often wondered at our fascination with their behaviour...
[more information] Baboon Understanding
Are animals capable of thought or are their actions based on instinct? I know many subscribe to the latter but I have seen one incident that has me convinced...
[more information] Baboons and Water
I studied a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta for over a year. The troop roosted in the trees on an island across from the lodge and every morning would move onto the main island...
[more information] Botswana Habitats
This Botswana Wildlife Guide describes the various habitats from the Kalahari Desert to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Linyanti Swamp and Okavango Delta...
[more information] Creatures of Change
Botswana is a wildlife paradise and is home to some very interesting animal behaviour that has evolved through natural forces and through human intervention...
[more information] Do Animals Talk
This Botswana Guide describes how species communicate with each other, what their alarm or distress calls mean or what their body posture tells...
[more information] Do Wild Animals Have Emotions?
This Botswana animal behaviour guide explains that animals show emotion. For example, Elephants mourn their dead or baboons carry their dead babies...
[more information] Elephant Population of Botswana
Botswana is known to have the highest elephant population in Africa, with the Chobe River supporting up to 50 000 in the dry season when the water in the hinterland had dried up...
[more information] Feeding
This Botswana Wildlife Behaviour Guide explains the differences between grazers, browsers or carnivores. It also describes meat-eating herbivores...
[more information] Fighting Back
Inter-species dominance comes into play when food is scarce. This Botswana Wildlife Guide tells of Giraffes fighting back and an interaction between...
[more information] Gathering of the Herds
Botswana is renowned for having the greatest concentration of Elephants in Africa, but what is not mentioned is that other animals also occur in large numbers along the waterways of the country...
[more information] Human and Animal Association
Due to human carelessness some species such as Hyena, Baboons and Monkeys begin to associate humans with food and then will become a 'problem'...
[more information] Interspecies Relationships
In this Botswana Wildlife Guide the interaction between specific species, called symbiosis, is described. Animals warn each other or pick parasites off...
[more information] Killing for Fun
Journal Entry, 1997: The lioness got up from the elephant carcass and walked towards the waterhole. She was soon followed by two others. As the first lioness reached the water...
[more information] Learning
Playing is very important for young wildlife. This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains how cubs learn important survival techniques while playing...
[more information] Mating Rituals
This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains the different mating rituals and how animals reach dominance. It's interesting that Hyena society is female dominated...
[more information] Patterns and Colouration
One of the fascinating aspects of the wildlife of Africa is the distinctive colours and patterns on show, and behaviour associated with each animals that sometimes compliments the colouring...
[more information] Predator Hunting Techniques
This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains which of the predator hunting techniques, stamina, stealth, power, speed, patience, smell, sound or sight, is used...
[more information] Protection of Young
The African Wilderness, with all its predators, is a place where adapting survival skills is key and many species have adapted unique ways to protect their vulnerable offspring...
[more information] Scavenging
This Botswana Wildlife Guide about scavenging in the African wilderness will clear up if Hyenas or Lions are scavengers. Find out on a Botswana Safari...
[more information] Species and Areas
This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains area specific differences of species. The differentiation can be made between wildlife living in wetlands or desserts...
[more information] Survival Techniques
Animals adapt various strategies to survive in the wild, and no place showcases the adaptations of wildlife better than in the spectacular wilderness areas of Africa...
[more information] Survival Techniques of Mimicry and Camouflage
One of the most common survival techniques animals use is camouflage. They have adapted to their environment. The animals of Africa have adapted in a number of ways to survive...
[more information] Survival Techniques to Avoiding Danger
The African wilderness is a dangerous place for those with limited survival skills, and as such the animals that live there have all developed their own survival techniques for avoiding danger...
[more information] Survival Techniques to Birth and Growing
The dangers for animals in Africa begin from the day of their birth and because of this they have to adapt survival techniques from the very start, or else end up as prey...
[more information] Territories and Home Ranges
The Botswana Wildlife explains that most animals have territories or home ranges and the sizes are affected by availability of food and terrain.
[more information] The Matabele Ants
The Matabele ants are aptly named after an African tribe that destroyed everything in their path as they swept through south and central Africa in the 1800's on raids and military campaigns...
[more information] The Predator Chain
It's interesting that hyenas are dominant over lions. This Botswana guide explains why the king of the beasts is not on top of the predator chain...
[more information] Understanding Dung
I have often been ridiculed for my fascination with 'dung and dust'. In today's mindset, a wilderness experience is considered primarily a big five one...
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