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Thread: Wild animals in the city
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11-01-2021, 23:37 #11
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Re: Wild animals in the city
Dassies. Tons and tons of them. They lay on the pavement, or on the edge of the road, basking in the sun. By now they are not even phased about cars. If they feel threatened, they jump into the storm water drains. But that's normally only for loud cars or people walking dogs. They are cute but have seen what they are capable of in terms of bites. Neighbour's Jack Russell got hold of one that ventured into his yard. Dog killed it, but not without him getting a boatload of stitches in his leg, leaving a huge scar behind. Could have lost the leg.
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12-01-2021, 07:38 #12
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Re: Wild animals in the city
zguy you sure those aren't cane rats (rietrotte)? We find them here in Pretoria around the storm water drains often, and they can get HUGE. Like the size of a large cat, easily.
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12-01-2021, 09:13 #13
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Re: Wild animals in the city
Although there are cane rats (Rietrot) along the Moreleta waterway, I have seen dassies in the area on the Northern side of the mountain that overlooks Silverton in Pretoria They were on the pavement and ran into the storm water drain when I parked there. You can confirm this with Andrew Tonkin who lives there.
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12-01-2021, 09:24 #14
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12-01-2021, 10:35 #15
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Re: Wild animals in the city
In quite a few cities in France wild boars has been seen walking around in broad daylight!
Foxes as well.
Last week Saturday we hunted between the plots/houses in our town. As food gets scarcer in the mountains the boars come down and do a lot of damage. 8 boars were chased up - all within 50m of houses. If there is a small hedge or "riet bos" they will shelter in it.
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13-01-2021, 12:27 #16
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Re: Wild animals in the city
Zguy does stay in area known to have dassies (without giving away too much info).
Either last year or the year before I found a cane rat in my swimming pool which had drowned (thanks to your post I now know what it's called), they really do get massive, was quite surprised when I found it.
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13-01-2021, 14:41 #17
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Re: Wild animals in the city
Had a genet in the house a few years back. We’re about a km from the braamfontein spruit in morningside so it was a surprise.
Also a number of guinea fowl in the neighbourhood which is always welcome.
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13-01-2021, 15:08 #18
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We have a stokstertmeerkat which visits often (possibly for the dog food), and I have caught and relocated one boomslang, one cape cobra and a few mole snakes from the garden to Koeberg reserve.
And once a large baboon spider (that is what I think it was from what I could see).
In the local golf estate, Atlantic Beach where we also lived there was an issue with caracal catching the domestic cats, not sure if that is still around.
Edge of Melkbosstrand.
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13-01-2021, 16:02 #19
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We have Spotted Eagle Owls nesting and roosting in one of our neighbour's large trees from time to time here in the Old East of Pretoria. A couple of years ago, we also had a Nagapie and Helmeted Guineafowl roosting in one of our Fever Trees. Spotted Thick-Knees (previous name Spotted Dikkops) are regulars in the quieter parts of the street too...
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13-01-2021, 16:35 #20
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Re: Wild animals in the city
I live next to the Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate, often get to see bushbuck and impala.
I always wonder how they manage their animal numbers in these eco estates.
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