by Todd Gustafson | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog
There is nothing like watching sea turtles hatch on a deserted tropical beach. In nesting season, sea turtles return to the beaches where they were born and lay several nests of eggs, with over 100 eggs per nest. The incubation period is approximately sixty...
by Todd Gustafson | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog
Pangolins are nocturnal, scaly anteaters. They are the most trafficked animal in the world and are currently red-listed as endangered by the IUCN. They are so rare that I have never seen one in all my decades of safari travel. In 2023, I arranged to visit a protected...
by Todd Gustafson | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog
One of my favorite roads in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater angles along the Munge River and the territory of the Munge lion pride. I have often photographed cubs playing in the field on either side of this track, so we constantly search carefully. There were no lions...
by Todd Gustafson | Dec 2, 2024 | Blog
The migration on Monarchs is thought to 10,000 years old coinciding with the end of the last ice age. And yet, their winter resting grounds weren’t known till 1975. The high altitude forests that provide winter habitat for hundreds of millions of monarch...
by Todd Gustafson | Dec 2, 2024 | Blog
Fred and his Hadzabe bushman tracker were driving to Arusha for supplies near dusk. When passing an acacia tree, a leopard suddenly leapt off the tree, chased down the Jeep, and jumped into the open vehicle, no doubt reacting to the zebra markings and movement of the...
