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Like many other snake species, puff adders prefer not to be disturbed and to go about their wild business in peace and quiet. For one puff adder, a simple Kgalagadi road crossing resulted in a rather irksome experience.
Continue readingDriving solo through the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, one Wild traveller had double the luck with two same-species encounters. One made love, the other war – but at first sight it wasn’t clear which was which.
Continue readingExpert hunters of snakes, secretarybirds rank among the Kgalagadi’s most charismatic raptors. When Marius Kritzinger came across one grappling with a puff adder, he captured a sighting to remember.
Continue readingOn a game drive, in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, André and Annette Ligthelm came across an injured puff adder lying in the road. The scene soon changed with the arrival of two hungry goshawks.
Continue readingValmai le Grange watched this jackal as it scavenged for insects on the road ahead of her. “He then suddenly hastened toward what we thought was a centipede but turned out to be an exhausted puff adder!”
Continue readingIn the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park, photographer Piet Heymans came across the extraordinary sequence.
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