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Otters 1 – Wotta Lotta Otters – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Otters 1 – Wotta Lotta Otters. September 26, 2014. February 5, 2015. The face peering at her was hairy and disapproving. Two small, baleful eyes set wide in a large furry head round as a ball. Ridiculous button ears. A broad black nose above stiff whiskers. The mouth curled down at the corners left no doubt she was intruding. And the face was sodden with sea water, compounding the impression of irritation. 8230; and who are you? She chose caution and retreated as he...

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Chapters – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Dassies 1 – The Munchers. Dassies 2 – Back in a flash. Dassies 3 – Animal Family. Dassies 4 – Endearing Opponent. Dassies 5 – Feeding furore. Dassies 6 – Passing in the night. Dassies 7 Bum to Bum. Guineafowl – The racketeers. Genets 1 Our seaside spotted tigers. Porcupine 1 The thorny digger. Porcupine 2 Uninvited guests. Otters 1 – Wotta Lotta Otters. Otters 2 Midnight cacophony. Otters 3 Fishing and fun. Otters 4 Mating and eating. Snakes – Slitherers II. On Jaso...

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Snakes – Slitherers II – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Snakes – Slitherers II. October 31, 2014. February 5, 2015. Molehills began to appear again. What on earth, or under it, could have gone wrong? Check in on Fridays as Wilf continues his wildlife tales and next week the Mongeese are the highlight of the show……. Part 2 The slitherers. Wilf Nussey's wildlife tales. Mongoose 1 – The City Sleekers. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. On A Wider View...

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Dassies 1 – The Munchers – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Dassies 1 – The Munchers. July 17, 2014. January 21, 2015. Nothing punctures self-esteem like discovering how ignorant you are especially when the puncturing is by a bunch of insouciant animals. After years of living in the bush I thought I was thoroughly familiar with wildlife and knew it all. I sneered at city dwellers with supercilious conceit novices who wouldn’t survive a day in the milieu of elephants, lions, antelopes and safari ants. We were so wrong. Not th...

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Otters 2 – Midnight cacophony – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Otters 2 Midnight cacophony. October 3, 2014. February 5, 2015. The Cape clawless is one of the thirteen sub-species found around the world. The largest by far is the giant otter of the Amazon. Information board at the Wetlands Center in London. One of our first sightings of otters was most unusual. One bright sunny morning Fundi Doreen called me to the picture windows overlooking the bay. It took the leaders a few minutes to reach the giant boulders at the other en...

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Guineafowl – The racketeers – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Guineafowl – The racketeers. August 29, 2014. August 29, 2014. And it is not easy to spot. Among ordinary chickens it stands out like a camel among horses. But Africa is its true home. The helmeted is one of about seven kinds of guineafowl and of only two kinds in Southern Africa and particular to our neighbourhood. Gathering on the neighbour’s lawn. Note the different sized casques, denoting the different sex. Settling down for an afternoon nap. 8211; as they gathe...

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Otters 3 – Fishing and fun – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Otters 3 Fishing and fun. October 10, 2014. February 5, 2015. We have established that they have holts in our midst, a holt being the name for the lair of an otter, though never used for other animals as far as I know. Three more otters appeared and all six emerged to roam aimlessly about the rocks. The one which had been keening continued to do so intermittently and the attitude of the others towards it became aggressive. At the end of the sandbathing session.

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Mongoose 2 – The Cape Greys – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Mongoose 2 – The Cape Greys. November 14, 2014. February 5, 2015. Mongeese feed quickly, lower jaws snapping open and shut while their heads move side to side to scan the surroundings constantly. Through the kitchen window my wife watched a small mongoose suddenly dart behind a plant pot and back out with a small three-striped mouse in its jaws. It fled with its prey when it saw her. The white flecked fur gives the grey mongoose a speckled look. Their highly functio...

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Porcupine 1 – The thorny digger – Our Urban Wild

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A backyard of fur, fangs and feathers. Porcupine 1 The thorny digger. September 12, 2014. February 5, 2015. Legend says the porcupine got its scientific name because the first ancient Greek explorer who saw it fell about laughing hysterically. His fellow explorers gave it the family name Hystricidae. Most striking is its coat of long, flexible spines and short thick quills so sharp and dense it has no way it can scratch the fleas and ticks that must luxuriate in the fur beneath. We first became aware of ...