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Photo Safari at The Wilds – The Dhole Dog

The Dhole is a canid native to Central, South and Southeast Asia.  Other English names for the species include Asiatic wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog, red dog, and mountain wolf. Wikipedia These beautiful dogs are on the endangered … Continue reading

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The Cheetah

The cheetah’s and the African painted dogs are two of the carnivores at The Wilds but there is one more that I will share with you tomorrow.

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Photo Safari at The Wilds – The Persian Onager

The Persian onager, also called the Persian wild ass or Persian zebra, is a subspecies of onager native to Iran.  Their numbers in the wild were once in the thousands now it is around 600.  They are listed as endangered.

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Photo Safari at The Wilds – Sichuan Takin

The takin, also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a goat-antelope found in the eastern Himalayas. The four subspecies are: B. t. taxicolor, the Mishmi takin; B. t. bedfordi, the Shaanxi takin or golden takin; B. t. Wikipedia Whatever … Continue reading

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Where the deer and the antelope stay

Common Eland Elands are the second largest species of antelope behind their relatives the giant elands.  Both have those spectacular spiral horns.   Pere David’s Deer This is a semi-aquatic species that prefers marshlands and is native to the sub … Continue reading

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Photo Safari – The Ostrich

These ostriches were some characters.  Did you know what their eyes are bigger than their brains?  And of all the animals that came close to our bus, these big birds were the only ones who got right up to and … Continue reading

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Mondays! Am I right?

It’s a new week so let’s shake it off, have a cup of coffee, tea, smoothie, juice, whatever and take on the day.  I hope and pray that this week humanity will be kinder to each another.  

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Photo Safari at The Wilds – The Banteng

The banteng, also known as tembadau, is a species of wild cattle found in Southeast Asia.  Banteng have been domesticated in several places in Southeast Asia, and there are around 1.5 million domestic banteng, which are called Bali cattle.  Hunting … Continue reading

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Photo Safari at The Wilds – Glenn, Mom and Friend

The Greater one horned Asian Rhinoceros or Indian rhinoceros is a species native to the Indian subcontinent.  It’s scientific name is rhinoceros unicornis.  How about that!  Unlike it’s cousin the white rhino, this oen prefers the solitary life except for … Continue reading

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The Greater One Horned Asian Rhino

 

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