Word: rhinos
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...selling these animals instead of killing them, the government parks are raising money to help fund conservation. The auction goes on for hours with buyers and onlookers regularly wandering out for a beer or boerewors sausage. This year, it becomes quickly apparent, the bottom is falling out of the rhino market, perhaps because visiting hunters pay in U.S. dollars, and local buyers are cautious about exchange-rate losses with such a strong South African rand, which has risen by almost 100% against the dollar since January 2002. After all the ostriches, impalas, kudu, warthogs, springbok, giraffes, hippos, zebras and waterbuck...
...twist on the traditional African safari, why not hop a ride on an animal rather than merely watching them? Near Pilanesberg, two hours north of Johannesburg, you can take an elephant-back safari through the lightly wooded Letsatsing game reserve, home to rhino, giraffe and zebra. Guests are collected from the game-trackers' desk in the sprawling Sun City hotel and casino complex and taken to a nearby elephant wallow. An introductory lecture about the big beasts, a one-hour ride and transfers between the pickup point and the beginning of the elephant ride cost $133 per person...
...family education, leisure activities, tours, free time, door prizes and meals for the masses. Indeed, getting 50, 75 or 100 people together--and meeting their dietary needs--is no easy task. It takes the strategic skills of a general, the tact of a diplomat and the skin of a rhino...
...After his meetings, the President took a whirlwind tour through a nature preserve, spending less than an hour viewing long-horned kudus (antelopes), birds, warthogs, and an adult rhino and a baby rhino. Leaning on a raised seat on the bed of a pickup truck with his wife and daughter Barbara, the President seemed to be enjoying himself though he breezed past a pair of cheetahs that were supposedly docile enough to withstand petting...
...laugh heartily at the Simpsons, refer to their fellow opening act Circle and Square as “Circle and SquarePants” and swap children’s stories with gleeful abandon be anything but adorable? Guitarist Ben Barnett even sports a tattoo of a ridiculously cute purple rhino from the children’s story “Peanut Butter Rhino...