Scorpion - Uroplectes triangulifer

Family Buthidae  - Uroplectes triangulifer

This species lives under rocks and is about 5cm in length.

Stick Insect

Family Phasmatodea - Bacillidae 

 Can anyone give me an idea of what is going on here? Stick Insects normally have 6 legs but this one has 4 and it looks like this baby one is eating its own leg????

Caterpillar pupa moth - Geometridae

Probably Geometridae - Emerald Moth species

Mushrooms

A selection of mushrooms found on my recent travels. 

 Please do not pick and eat wild mushrooms. They can make you very sick!!

Lion cub

"How boring to be a two year old male lion cub!"

 Yawn .......

 "I think I will go and lay in the elephant dung for a change of pace!"

Mountain Sandman (Spialia spio)

Family Hesperiidae - Skipper

Spittal bug

Spittal bugs surround themselves with a ball of foam attached to grass to hide in from predators.

Shelduck Duck

Family Anseriformes Anatidae

My first sigting of this species seen in Mountain Zebra National Park.

Elephant baby

This was quite funny!! The baby would stop and put its trunk on the ground ...

walk a few steps ....

and do it again. LOL!! Was he resting its trunk because it was too heavy? :)

Info: Unique Facts about Wildlife in South Africa (Joan Young)

Leopard

Leopard can be so hard to spot!! 

 Most of the time it is just a tail disappearing into the bush.

 But if you are lucky and have the paatients, you might see them reappear in the open.

Info: Unique Facts about Wildlife in South Africa (Joan Young)