Kim and his photos have been featured on Flickr’s Animal Kingdom group in an interview with Noah Bulgaria, the curator of the group. Some interesting questions and a nice selection of images from the photostream.
An extract from the interview:
What was the most extreme thing you did to get a photograph or film clip?
I have been out of the car with all the Big 5* to get low angle shots in various different situations. But I suppose the most extreme thing was flying an ultralight aircraft with a camera strapped to the wing, through Bogenfels. This is a rock arch that extends out over the sea on the desert coast of Namibia. I only had about 2 m clearance on each side and a rocky ocean below. Won’t being doing that one again. Will use a radio controlled plane next time.
Read the interview in full.
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They put up strong resistance but when hyaena reinforcements arrived the dogs had to back off.
Wild dogs and hyaenas converged on Nhoro pan at first light. Wild dogs from the south and hyaenas from the north. Both parties innocently going to drink. Having arrived there first and quenched their thirst the dogs saw the hyaenas approaching and without hesistation took the fight to the hyaenas. The first unsuspecting culprits were too slow to respond and had their backsides bitten. But then reinforcements arrived and the battle evened out until one huge female hyaena, possibly the matriarch, took the battle to the wild dogs and they backed off. But only slightly and then suddenly came in for another mass attack again catching some of the hyaenas off guard. But the attack was brief and the dogs left the battlefield and headed back to the den.
The hyaenas not wanting to be out done. Slowly marched on following the dogs scent trail and soon were in the area of the den where another battle took place. The adults were really doing this to give the pups time to take refuge in the hills which they did and were safe.
Late afternoon all was back to normal at the wild dog den with pups out playing in the mopanie before the pack headed off hunting again at dusk. But will the dogs stay in Sosigi or will this harassment cause them to move on?
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