Costa Rica has 6% of the world's biodiversity. Because of that, you're likely to see all sorts of wildlife both big and small...

Spotting a leopard in the wild in Africa can be a rare occurrence, but when you do come across one of them it often makes for an...

On my first safari, once we had our first leopard sighting we saw leopards often. After some days of seeing a carcass in a tree we knew...

There's a saying that elephants remember everything. I had never given that saying much thought or wondered where that belief originated...

It might have been one of the creepiest faces I've ever stared into. The bloodied face of an African wild dog, and so many of them that...

I'm not a cat person. I like dogs. I got to see both while on safari. The wild dogs always gave us a great show with their hunts. But the...

If you asked me for an accurate profile (pun intended!) of a lion when I was younger (and way before my first safari), I wouldn't have...

Look at these two! I image them as teenagers who met one day out in the bush and developed a life-long friendship. Were they sharing the...

By the time I got to my third camp on that safari trip, I thought I was prepared for seeing the animals in camp. In fact, at the previous...

When I finally decided the time was right to go on safari, I followed the advice of more experienced safari travelers and decided on...

They're not regular "dogs" by any means. Whether you call them wild dogs, painted dogs, spotted dogs, or anything else, they bear little...

Elephants don't have hands. It's true. I'm not even sure an elephant can push something with one of its legs...it may not have the...