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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Friday, December 29, 2006 - 8:59 am
We have some playful Zebras
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, December 29, 2006 - 3:47 pm
Someone posted a useful site to help figure out what you are seeing (posted on the forum for wavelit/africam) http://www.safaricamlive.com/mammals.htm and if you go just to safaricamlive and click on wildlife encyclopedia there is also a bird link. http://www.safaricamlive.com/birds_encyclopedia_main_page.htm
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 4:32 pm
There is a wonderful African storm on the wavelit cam right now.. lightning, thunder and what looks like shooting stars and I now think might be some flying critters.. we had ghostly galloping gazelles too (impala) but they moved on. Two geese floating about on the water hole.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 5:26 pm
Posted on their forum.. this is nice.. the music too. http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m144/dacmon/?action=view¤t=2006ReviewFinal.flv
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 6:01 pm
Seamonkey, that is a terrific video. Thanks for posting.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 7:43 pm
Yes, thanks Seamonkey I enjoyed it very much.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 8:54 pm
The geese crack me up!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 8:04 am
They looked so much in love with all their 'necking'.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 3:29 am
Well it is definitely spring.. there is frolicking going on and they young buck are butting horns. Any of you who go there, if you see the Wildebeest herd, look carefully to see if the injured baby wilde is still there. I saw him earlier so he made it to 2007. Those of us posting on the forum there are sad/concerned because one of his hind legs has been broken so badly the end is dangling. This appears to bother him but he gets around amazingly well and his mom is nursing him and taking care, but of course we fear infection or gangrene. If that isn't the case and he can lose the loose part he still has to be vulnerable, though he can get around.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 7:38 am
What a thrill, saw my first ever Pete's Pond slug crawling across a tree trunk this morning. The cam person doesn't miss anything.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 10:56 am
OG, every time I have checked Pete's Pond lately, it seems I get audio but only stills instead of video. Are you getting moving video?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 10:59 am
Fatty (the crocodile) is out at Pete's Pond right now!!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 11:19 am
Sorry, Juju, it was Wavelit. I too cannot get Pete's pond, but get the ad with Ellen Degeneris just find. Then I can see an animal, but it has been the same for over a week now. I thought it might be because of my new computer.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 1:13 pm
Pete's Pond is "down" for the winter, so I read on wavelit. I think they may be running old clips some of the times. Yesterday at wavelit, the cam watched ants for awhile and then one of those huge millipedes.. the ones the meerkats (of Meerkat Manor fame) enjoy so much
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 3:57 pm
sea--i read a message from one of the cam operators--they think injured baby wildebeast is dead 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 4:03 pm
Oh no! I thought I saw him again later than the time I saw him for sure. I know the camera ops have been zooming in and looking for him whenever the Wildebeest herd is around. And no one wanted him to be hurting but we all hoped against hope for the gutsy little guy. It was a VERY bad situation. Thanks for letting me know. I'm on the laptop and trying to not spread that addiction here, but will check when I go downstairs later.
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 4:07 pm
Message from Cam Operator This was posted by Karin on the Africam forum. Hallo from a cold and wet Nkorho. Hope you all had a wonderful new year so far. Just want to tell you that it seems to me that we lost our injured calf today. I am not sure what happened to it but it was not with the others this afternoon. It is better like this I think. Couldn't stand seeing it like that for much longer. We had quite a good day...Did anyone spot the green grasshopper on that big green leave at the rocks? It was not very easy to spot but it was beautiful, just like our tree climbing shongololo. We all at Nkorho just once again want to thank you for watching and all the warm wishes we got. We also do appreciate it and we love sharing all of this we have with the rest of the world. It would be so nice if we could one day put a face to a name, so you better start saving. Happy viewing _________________ Nkorho Lodge
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 4:52 pm
Thanks!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 4:56 pm
And thanks for letting me know Pete's Pond is down. But isn't it summer there now, not winter?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 5:04 pm
Yes.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 5:07 pm
Re: Where has Pete's pond gone Reply Pete's Pond usually runs from late August, early September until early December. This is the time of the year when the rains come and the animals have many more opportunities to drink elsewhere. It will be on until the end of December with no one manning the camera. It will be on autopan, but you can still watch. Go to the National Geographic website and you will find out many more things relating to Pete's Pond. from the wavelit forum..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 5:10 pm
This was posted to show the distance from Pete's Pond to the Watering Hole

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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 5:13 pm
That's too bad about the baby wildebeast. But the harsh reality is the poor little guy was probably a goner the minute his leg broke. I checked out that video someone posted, and there's just no way he would have been able to keep up with the herd, or outrun a predator with that bum leg. In a species that relies on the ability to bolt and run at a moments notice to survive, I don't think he'd have stood a chance, even if the injured area healed over. There's just no room for a three legged prey animal in the wild. One would actually hope that he would be taken out quickly by a predator, rather than linger in pain and discomfort for so long. Even his ability to drink was affected. In the video I saw he couldn't even get into a stance to drink, and had to wander around the water hole to find a place he could bend down just right to finally get a drink.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 6:33 pm
I hear what sounds like a lion purring and chomping on something but he is not showing up on camera. Anyone know what those lights are that I see darting around and hitting the ground right by the water hole. They are very fast and look as though they slam into the ground.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 01, 2007 - 8:09 pm
Thanks for the info, Seamonkey.
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