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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 | travel

African Wild Paw

Very tired and freezing I have returned from sunny South Africa to cold Vienna. My head is still full with new ideas and impressions, my suitcase full of reports and videos. My heart’s now beating – I have to admit – also a little bit for the Great Karoo, for my “Hooligan AWCs” and also for their owners J. & M. Pfleiderer, who once started observing cats in Africa together with P. Leyhausen.
Thank you for everything, for the long hours of discussions, for the aching muscles because of laughing too hard and for creating a brimming atmosphere of science.
This wasn’t a long-lasting good-bye!

I do have some ideas and comments to post on medicine, behaviour and cat husbandy. Well… when I manage to find the time and assort my thoughts.

For now, there are only photos. But sometimes, they really DO tell more than a thousand words!

New material for the enclosuresTeeth white as lightTurtle crossingFelis Libyca Silvestris - a male obviouslyProfelis Caracal - known as lamb killer amongs farmersFelis nigripes - adults weigh arround 2kg!Felis nigripes - the babyface is best suitable for the hot environment of this wild, untameable speciesAfrican Shorthar - not just a domestic kitty as this tortie is a male!There's somthing in the wayThunderstorm coming to HoningkrantzKeith - torn between wilderness and pet because of his pastLoving coupleProfelis CaracalFelis Silvestris LibycaLeyhausen's glass filled with my lemonadeOstrichesWhat are you looking?Very friendly plantsEven friendler African Wild CatHoningkrantzCan-opening in AfrikaansPerfect colouringLeptailurus servalGreeting 1Greeting 2A Serval's pawprintLeptailurus servalLeptailurus servalProcavia capensisTragelaphus strepsiceros Environment of the African Wild Cat (ancestor of the domestic cat)another typical scenerythe death in the kitchenwild boy got trappedin early february!the earth's shadow the center of the milky way (eta carinae, southern plejades etc.)the southern cross and the typical dark cloudsouthern of the southern crossthe great magellanic cloud, our neighbouring galaxy (as all of the above can only be seen from the southern hemisphere)comet! (lil' green patch)18.02.2009 - Mercury, Jupiter and Mars altogether on the morning sky (arround 5 o'clock)Felis nigripesyoung African Wild Cat being shy

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4 Comments to Back home

Valérie
February 23, 2009

Waooww,probably one of the best great moment in a life.
Happy to see you here:-)

PointilistiCats
February 23, 2009

It definitely was! And it looks like there is more to come! :o)

Kerry Smith
February 23, 2009

Welcome back Serina. It looks and sounds like you had the most amazing time. The pictures are fabulous.

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