The Panama Canal is long of 80km connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific; it goes trough the mountains and is at 95m above sea level. It takes about 8 to 10 hours for a boat to cross it. The canal is constituted of 3 main parts: the Gatun Lake which is the result of an […]
The Gabar Goshawks belong to birds of prey. They live in couples during the breeding period and “divorce” after to assume alone their own life… When making its nest, it has been noticed that the Gabar Goshawk tries to keep spider webs around the nest to hide it and also to protect its chicks […]
We were on a safari in Zambia, Kafue National Park, the sunset was beautiful when we stopped near a pond to look around about animals as usual. Everything was quiet; there was nothing special until one hippo strolling around decided to go into the water. Its bath was then quite surprising! It began suddenly to […]
We are still wondering what could be the hippo reasons to roll like a barrel? It might be because of some ticklings or insect bites that it could not scratch, who knows? Planetstillalive-Gallery of Mammals
In Africa, Cheetah lives in open areas like savannah, from there it can better observe its future preys, like impalas when hunting and it also has an overview on possible predators overall when it has cubs. Most of the time, if there is a rocky bump, the cheetah sits at the top to look around. […]
This happened during a safari, we were waiting in the savannah to take pictures of a herd of Zebras, when suddenly some elands came running and jumping one after the other very close to us. These animals, at least the male can jump up to 2m and the young one 3m. I am not […]
May 2012, in Zimbabwe, while having a boat trip from Ruckomechi Camp Lodge on Lower Zambezi, we peered at a Goliath Heron ready to fly and began to take pictures when he arrived flying beyond a hippo with her baby. The female hippo suddenly aware of a danger came nearer her baby and tried first to protect […]
It was 5 O’ clock in the morning when I arrived at the elephant point of Kaziranga. The sun was very shy behind the trees and the morning was still misty. After climbing some steps, I was comfortably seated on my huge elephant and the stroll could start for two hours. Kaziranga NP in India […]
“Cockscomb Basin”, is a Wildlife Sanctuary Park in Belize with luxurious vegetation. It is full of birds like “Hooded Orioles”, “woodpeckers” and many raptors. The must of this park is a small pond, well hidden under the trees but easy to find. There, sitting on the near branches at a few meters of me, […]
The speciality of this striped butterfly is to let us believe that he has 2 heads, one in front and one behind, the one behind is in fact a tail with a false antenna moving slightly. The purpose of this is to trick the birds when staying on leaves by protecting his true head […]
