South African Adventures

15/12/2021

21/09/2021

Creation Wine's placing in the World's best Vineyards 2021.Placed top 10 in the world and number 1 in Africa

02/06/2021

30/08/2020

01/05/2020

Caracal hunting cormorants at 🌿

With the project now in the analysis phase we are looking at how decide where to move and find food 🐱 These might seem like basic questions but can be quite tricky to answer. Two important factors influencing where wild animals go to eat include where the food is (like this colony), and importantly, how risky it is to get that food. Near urban areas, the risks are obvious - roads and cars, hikers, domestic dogs, and poachers to name a few 🏙 Unexpectedly, Cape Point caracals are teaching us a lot about how caracals make decisions when they have the option to avoid these risks! Clumsy cormorants are easy prey for caracals and so not surprisingly, caracals in the southern Peninsula are choosing to spend a lot of time hunting prey in Cape Point away from urban areas! 🐦🌊 Surprisingly for us, caracals that live in the northern sections of , that can’t avoid some interface with people, roads, and urban areas (because of how fragmented the landscape is), choose instead to hunt very close to urban areas! 🌆 The reason is that there is likely that they become as young caracals to dealing with risky environments where there are tons of people, cars, and roads, and learn that there is a lot of easy prey close to urban areas­ ­­– such as abundant Guinea fowl and Egyptian geese.

Analysing all these factors together is a lengthy process but we are starting to get some really interesting results 😸📈📄 Hopefully we can share some details of findings with you all soon!

Photo by Anya Adendorff (2016)

13/03/2020

A turtle, released after 20 years in captivity, swims more than 37,000 kilometres from South Africa to Australia.

03/03/2020

07/01/2020

We hope you didn't miss out on the magical sunset yesterday. Another reason to love the Cape.

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