African elephants, Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape

South Africa Trip '98: A Pictorial Record
by Adrian Shepherd

These pages are the result of a trip I made (with Wendy) to South Africa in 1998 - my first trip to sub-Saharan Africa and my first attempt at taking wildlife photos with a telephoto lens.

All pictures on these Web pages are copyright 1998-1999 Adrian Shepherd and are covered by my copyright notice. If you have any comments about the content of these pages, please e-mail me at a.shepherd@biochem.ucl.ac.uk.

Contents:

A description of our route (with accompanying landscape photos).
My twelve favourite photographs from the trip (with thumbnails).
Links to all my mammal pictures and bird & reptile pictures.
If you really think you know your African wildlife, you may like to try this pictorial quiz.
Information about how I took the photographs.

Springbok, Mountain Zebra National Park, Eastern Cape

MAMMALS
(All 38 species of mammal that we saw on the trip are listed here)

Primates:
Chacma baboon (1 pic)
Vervet monkey (3 pics)
Thick-tailed bushbaby

Carnivores:
Black-backed jackal (2 pics)
Bat-eared fox
Wild dog (1 pic)
Spotted hyaena (2 pics)
Yellow mongoose
Meerkat
Common genet
Black-footed cat

Proboscids:
African elephant (5 pics)

Odd-Toed Ungulates:
Burchell's zebra (2 pics)
Mountain zebra (2 pics)
Black rhinoceros (1 pic)
White rhinoceros (1 pic)

Even-Toed Ungulates:
Hippopotamus
Warthog (2 pics)
Giraffe (2 pics)
African buffalo (1 pic)
Nyala (2 pics)
Greater kudu (2 pics)
Eland
Common duiker
Steenbok
Mountain reedbuck
Waterbuck
Springbok (2 pics)
Impala (3 pics)
Bontebok/Blesbok
Tsessebe
Red hartebeest (2 pics)
Brindled gnu (2 pics)
White-tailed gnu

Hyraxes:
Rock hyrax (dassie) (1 pic)

Lagomorphs:
Scrub hare

Rodents:
Spring hare
Four-striped grass mouse

Jackass penguins, Boulders (nr Simon's Town), Western Cape

BIRDS & REPTILES
(We saw 160 species of bird in total - too many to list here!)

Birds:
Ostrich (1 pic)
Helmeted guineafowl (2 pics)
Hamerkop (1 pic)
Jackass penguin (2 pics)
Trumpeter hornbill (1 pic)
Woollynecked stork (1 pic)
Reptiles:
Mountain tortoise (2 pics)
Nile crocodile

(Of course many species got away unidentified. For example the bats we saw in a cave at Tsitsikamma National Park. And that green snake we nearly trod on in Mkuzi Game Reserve...)

BIRDS & REPTILES (We saw 160 species of bird in total - too many to list here!)
Birds: Ostrich (1 pic) Helmeted guineafowl (2 pics) Hamerkop (1 pic) Jackass penguin (2 pics) Trumpeter hornbill (1 pic) Woollynecked stork (1 pic)	Reptiles: Mountain tortoise (2 pics) Nile crocodile