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These 3 came to visit at the perfect time during the golden hours while I was sitting in the underground hide at Andersson's camp during our annual waterhole count...
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Ongava Tented Camp or OTC is located at the foot of a dolomite hill, and since they are so many rocks ad crevices around, this is a paradise for rock hyraxes or dassies (Procavia capsiens) and dassie rats (Petomus typicusl)
A rock hyrax tuning himself.
At OTC you'll notice that while some dassies have a dark-near black dorsal spot, others have a whitish-yellowish one. This was describe in a scientific paper from 1966 in Journal of Mammalogy. If we believe this paper, the ones with a whitish dorsal spot would be a subspecies known as Kaokoveld rock dassie (Procavia capensis welwitschii) that is endemic to the region.
Dassie rat showing the typical brushy tail
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Here are a few shots of our Ongava's lions...
On a giraffe kill...
What's there?
Golden boy
Not a happy lady
Brother & sister
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Between flat plains covered with Cataphractus and Mopane, rolling hills of sharp dolomite rocks, termite mounts of a diversity of colours, stromatolite rocks (one's of the earliest fossils)...
Typical large Mopane tree, termite mount and sharp dolomites rocks in the background.
A closer look at the dolomites...
A maze of dolomite
One of our endemic tree: Commiphora glaucescens or Blue-leaved corkwood.
Blue-leaved corkwood and Euphorbia sp. in the hills.
Another endemoic: Pachypodium lealii or Bottle tree, blooming in August
Bottle tree flower
And the last endemic for this post: Moringa ovalifolia or Phantomtree
Sunrise over Andersson's camp waterhole
Stromatolites
Just a beautiful rock
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