‘Friday PM-BOTANY REVIEW’, these words stood etched onto the board in the ‘not so functional’ whiteboard markers that never quite work...

Humans have been super predators for some time, and animals have thus developed an instinctive understanding of this fact which in turn...

Those of you who know me will know that my hatred of blog writing stretches further than the reach of an ancient Baobab. I have ducked...

Field guiding is far more about people than animals. You may spend ten hours a day looking at four-legged animals, but you will spend between fifteen to eighteen hours daily with the two-legged ones. There are a few professions where you spend so much time with the same people. On any kind of safari, you are with your clients almost every waking hour, which is normally from dawn till around ten at night. Game drive You will be asked so many times “you must hate doing this eve

A past Bushwise student and recipient of the Annual Bushwise Scholarship Thabisani Buthelezi (Ernest), now works at the Iconic Mala Mala...

A 4am start for the first day of the start of my student life as a field guide-my first practical drive. I start off with the preliminary...

Before I give my opinion on this, let us just have a brief look at what field guiding actually is all about. You have probably seen those...