The southern yellow-billed hornbill is a hornbill found in southern Africa. Yellow-billed hornbills feed mainly on the ground, where they forage for seeds, small insects, spiders and scorpions. This hornbill species is a common and widespread resident of dry thorn veld and broad-leafed woodlands.
2018-10 Drakensberg Sun Resort Final
Burnt-out ruins on the R600, en route to Fernwood Lodge, Cathkin Park, Drakenberg South, ZA.
| The common name “blue wildebeest” refers to the conspicuous, silvery-blue sheen of the coat, while the alternative name “gnu” originates from the name for these animals used by the Khoikhoi people, a native pastoralist people of southwestern Africa. |
The African buffalo is a large sub-Saharan African bovine. There are five subspecies that are recognized as being valid. Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the nominotypical subspecies, and the largest one, found in Southern and East Africa.
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