Some South African Facts

• The mortality rate if  bitten by a Black Mamba is higher than 95%.
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• Elephants are known to remain standing after they die.
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• All forms of animal life known to have inhabited the Earth, only about 10% still exist today!
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• In 1884, President Paul Kruger was proposed that the borders of the region are defined as game reserves to protect the flora and fauna, but his vanguard revolutionary vision  has met with much resistance. However today, and thanks to him, we the famous Kruger National Park!
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• A bird of the Family Pics can peck a trunk ... 20 times per second!
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• Among the African big cats, the lion is most closely related to the leopard due to the structure of similar mailbox.
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• The voice call of a female leopard differs from the male in being longer and with a higher frequency.
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• A male elephant can reject up to 155 kg of manure per day.
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• Dragonflies are among the fastest insect that can fly at a speed of 80 to 95 km / h (50-60 mph).
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• The Kruger National Park was proclaimed in 1898 as the Sabie Game Reserve and the area between Sabie and Crocodile River was set aside and defined by several official reserves.
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• James Stevenson-Hamilton, Scottish, was appointed as the first keeper of the Kruger National Park in 1902. Many stories about the beginnings of the park management can be found in the library of Stevenson-Hamilton Memorial.
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• The African elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a bandicoot shortnose (isoodon) has a gestation period of only 12 days.
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• The closest relatives of the elephant is the rock hyrax (dassie).
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• Elephants, like humans, apes, dolphins and magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror!
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• A good indicator of the age of a male lion is the blackness of his mane. More mane is darker, the lion is old.
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• Buffalo have an excellent memory. They can remember you after several years! They are also very intelligent and can lead poachers in ambushes!
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• South Africa is home to both the smaller succulents in the world and the largest (the baobab).
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• Small white rhinoceros walk in front of their mother, while small black rhinos walk behind their mother. They say in Africa, as they do white women who push their children before them in a stroller and black women who wear their back.