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Lion at Safari park near Hermanus

Rhino at Safari park near Hermanus

Cheetah at Safari park near Hermanus

Elephant at Safari park near Hermanus

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Safari Park near Hermanus -

Hermanus literally is an adventure-playground and offers you loads of amazing activities to keep you very entertained and busy.

Many visitors to South Africa wish to see African Safari animals roaming free, so thankfully only 2 and half hours drive from Hermanus / Cape Town there is an excellent Safari park, which offers 3 to 4 hour game drives in open sided Land Rover Jeeps with professional Safari Game Rangers; while also operating some incredible conservation initiatives too.
(Day trips or over-night visits are available.)

Set in the remote Karoo is a large 10,000 hectare gorgeous Safari park with over 1,400 African animals doing what nature intended – while also being remote enough to be miles away from any horrid human constructions like buildings, telephone poles, roads/traffic and street lights...so you really are truly out-in-the-middle of nowhere – perfect for a Safari park

Rhinos are being slaughtered for their horns at a horrendously outrageous rate and what this park started (and is now being adopted by many other Safari parks across South Africa) is a way of hopefully deterring poachers, by injecting their Rhino horns with a coloured dye, a poison to humans and an x-ray detectable solution, all of which are totally harmless to the Rhinos. Their Rhinos have now had this important treatment. 2 saved baby rhinos are also at this park.

With only 800 wild Cheetahs left roaming free in South Africa, their gene pool has been substantially weakened, with the result that sometimes babies are born deformed and unable to survive in the wild. However what this park has been fantastically operating since 2001 is a marvelous breeding program to strengthen the gene pool; while also re-training the parks Cheetahs to chase and hunt for themselves too - with 2 Cheetahs being released into the main reserve recently. Other Cheetahs are tame “ambassadors” and interactions with you and these fantastic creatures are also available.

This park has recently re-introduced Elephants, which is the first time in 150 years that these iconic African creatures have been allowed to roam free in the Karoo. Once these 2 males have settled into their new homes, then female elephants will be introduced to the park soon.

Other African animals that can also be viewed at the park are – Lions, Hippo, Giraffe, Cape Buffalo, Eland, Kudu, Springbok, blue & black Wildebeest, Zebra, Steenbok, Bontebok, Duiker, Nyala, Ostrich, Lechwe, Oryx (Gemsbok), Impala, Rhebok, Blesbok and many more species…..

This Safari park is most certainly worth a visit, not only to see splendid African animals roam free but to also witness the utterly excellent conservation work that they are doing too.

For those of you that wish to see African animals but are on a very tight time-agenda, then there is a Cheetah park and an African Eagle / Owl sanctuary located between Hermanus and Cape Town, only 45mins away.

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At Percy Tours we utterly LOVE quiz games and nature - so when we started to collect Animal Grouping and Collective names together, from our many Safari trips, Marine watching and Bird-watching tours, we were over-joyed at having this info - which we share with you here - now we will be the Pub Quiz winners :-)))

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Animal Group Name - (relevant South African creatures are in bold)

Aardvarks - Army
Albatross - Rookery
Alligators - Congregation
Apes - Shrewdness, Troop
Antelope - Herd
Ants - Colony, Army, Swarm, Nest
Asses - Pace, Herd, Drove
Auks - Colony, Flock, Raft
Baboons - Troop, Flange
Bacteria - Culture
Badgers - Cete, Colony, Set, Company
Barracudas - Battery
Bats - Colony, Cloud
Bat eared Foxes - Skulk, Leash
Bass - Shoal
Bears (General) - Sloth, Sleuth
Bears (Cubs) - Litter
Beavers - Colony, Family
Bees - Grist, Hive, Swarm, Nest
Birds (Chicks) - Brood, Clutch
Birds (Flight) - Flight
Birds (Game) - Volary, Brace, Plump, Knob
Birds (Ground) - Flock, Dissimulation
Birds (Sea) - Wreck
Bison - Herd
Bitterns -Sedge, Seige
Bloodhounds - Sute
Bobolinks - Chain
Buffalo (Cape) - Herd, Troop, Gang, Obstinacy
Bullfinches - Bellowing
Bullocks - Drove
Butterflies - Flight, Flutter, Kaleidoscope
Buzzards - Wake
Camels - Caravan, Train, Flock
Capons - Mews
Caracals - Chain
Caribou - Herd
Caterpillars - Army
Cats (General) - Clowder, Clutter, Pounce, Dout, Nuisance, Glorying, Glare
Cats (Kittens) - Kindle, Litter, Intrigue
Cats (Wild) - Destruction
Cattle - Drove, Herd, Team
Cheetahs - Coalition
Chickens (General) - Brood, Peep
Chickens (Chicks) - Clutch, Chattering
Chimpanzees - Cartload
Chinchilla - Colony
Choughs - Clattering
Clams - Bed
Cobras - Quiver
Cockroaches - Intrusion
Cod - Lap
Coots - Cover, Raft
Cormorants - Gulp
Cows - Kine
Coyotes - Band
Crabs - Cast, Consortium
Cranes - Sedge, Seige
Crocodiles - Bask, Float
Crows - Murder, Horde, Parcel, Storytelling
Curlews - Herd
Deer (General) - Herd, Leash, Gang
Deer (Buck) - Brace, Clash
Deer (Roe) - Bevy
Dogs (General) - Kennel
Dogs (Curs) - Cowardice
Dogs (Hounds) - Cry, Mute, Pack
Dogs (Puppies) - Litter
Dogs (Wild) - Pack
Dolphins - Pod
Donkeys - Drove, Pace, Herd
Dotterel - Trip
Doves (General) - Dule, Bevy, Cote, Dole, Paddling
Doves (Turtle) - Pitying, Piteousness
Dragonflies - Cluster, Flight
Ducks (Flight) - Flock
Ducks (Ground) - Brace, badling
Ducks (Water) - Raft, Team, Paddling
Dugongs - Herd
Dunlins - Fling
Eagles - Convocation, Aerie
Eels - Swarm, Bed, Fry
Elephants - Herd, Memory, Trumpet, Parade
Elk - Gang, Herd
Emus - Mob
Falcons - Cast
Ferrets - Business, Cast, Fesnying
Finches - Charm
Fish (General) - Draft, Nest, Shoal, School ("school" is possibly a corruption of shoal)
Fish (Caught) - Catch, Drought, Haul
Flamingoes - Stand, Flamboyance
Flies - Business, Swarm, Cloud
Frogs - Army, Colony, Knot, Chorus
Fox - Leash, Skulk, Earth, Lead, Troop
Geese (General) - Flock
Geese (Flight) - Skein
Geese (Ground) - Gaggle, Herd, Corps
Giraffes - Tower (standing still), Journey (on the move)
Gnats - Cloud, Horde, Swarm
Gnus - Implausibility
Goats - Tribe, Trip, Drove, Herd, Flock
Goldfinches - Charm
Goldfish - Glint, Troubling
Gorillas - Band, Troop
Goshawks - Flight
Grasshoppers - Cloud
Greyhounds - Leash
Grouse - Pack, Covey
Guillemots - Bazaar
Gulls - Colony, Screech
Guinea Fowl - Confusion
Hawks (General) - Cast
Hawks (Flight) - Kettle
Hawks (Spiraling) - Boil
Hedgehogs - Array
Herons - Sedge, Siege, Hedge
Herring - Army, Shoal
Hippopotamuses - Bloat
Honey Badgers - Colony
Hornets - Nest, Bike
Horses (General) - Team, Harras, Stable, Troop, Stud (a group belonging to one owner)
Horses (Colts) - Rag, Rake
Horses (Ponies) - String
Horses (Wild) - Herd
Hummingbirds - Charm
Hyenas - Cackle, Clan
Iguanas - Mess
Impalas - Herd
Insects - Horde, Nest, Swarm, Rabble, Plague
Jaguars - Prowl, Shadow
Jays - Party, Scold, Band
Jellyfish - Smack, Brood
Kangaroos - Troop, Mob, Herd
Lapwings - Deceit
Larks - Exaltation, Ascension
Lemurs - Conspiracy
Leopards - Leap
Lions - Pride, Sault, Troop
Lizards - Lounge
Llamas - Herd
Locusts - Plague
Magpies - Tiding, Gulp, Murder, Charm
Mallards (General) - Brace
Mallards (Flight) - Sord
Martens- Richness
Mice - Mischief
Moles - Labor, Company, Movement
Mongooses - Business
Monkeys - Troop, Barrel, Carload, Cartload, Tribe
Mosquitoes - Scourge, Swarm
Mules - Pack, Span, Barren, Rake
Nightingales - Watch
Octopus - Consortium
Otters - Romp, Bevy, Family, Raft
Owls - Parliament, Stare
Oxen - Team, Yoke, Drove
Oysters - Bed
Pandas - Bamboo, Embarrassment
Parrots - Company, Pandemonium
Partridge - Covey, Bew
Peacocks - Muster, Ostentation, Pride
Pelicans - Pod
Penguins (General) - Colony, Rookery, Huddle, Waddle, Convert
Penguins (Nursery) - Crèche
Pheasants (Take-Off) - Bouquet
Pigeons - Flight, Flock, Kit
Pigs (General) - Drift, Drove
Pigs (Boars) - Singular, Sounder
Pigs (Hogs) -Team, Passel, Drift, Parcel
Pigs (Piglets) - Litter, Farrow
Pigs (Swine) - Sounder
Pilchards - Shoal
Plovers (General) - Congregation
Plovers (Flight) - Wing
Porcupines - Prickle
Porpoises - Herd, Pod, School, Crowd, Shoal
Quail - Bevy, Covey
Rabbits (General) - Colony, Warren, Bury, Trace, Trip
Rabbits (Domestic) - Herd
Rabbits (Hares) - Down, Husk
Rabbits (Jackrabbit) - Husk
Rabbits (Young) - Litter, Nest
Raccoons - Gaze
Rats - Colony, Pack, Plague, Swarm
Rattlesnakes - Rhumba
Ravens - Unkindness, Storytelling
Reindeer - Herd
Rhinoceroses - Crash, Stubbornness
Roebucks - Bevy
Robins - Round
Rooks - Building, Clamor, Parliament
Salamandars - Congress
Salmon - Run
Sandpipers - Fling
Sardines - Family
Scorpions - Bed, Nest
Seabirds - Wreck
Seals - Pod, Bob, Harem, Herd, Rookery
Servals - Sluthe
Sharks - Shiver, School, Shoal
Sheep - Drove, Flock, Down, Hurtle, Fold, Pack, Trip
Skunks - Stench
Sloths - Bed, Snuggle
Snails - Escargatoire, Rout, Walk
Snakes - Den, Nest, Pit, Bed, Knot
Sparrows - Host
Spiders - Cluster, Clutter
Springbok - Herd
Squirrels - Dray, Scurry
Starlings - Murmuration, Chattering
Stingrays - Fever
Stoats - Pack, Trip
Storks - Mustering, Muster
Swallows - Flight, Gulp
Swans (General) - Bevy, Bank, Herd
Swans (Flight) - Wedge, Flight
Swifts - Flock
Termites - Colony, Nest, Swarm, Brood
Thrush - Mutation
Tigers - Streak, Ambush
Toads - Knot, Knab, Nest
Trout - Hover
Turkeys - Rafter, Gang, Posse
Turtles - Bale, Nest, Turn, Dole
Turtle Doves - Pitying, Dule
Vipers - Generation, Nest
Vultures - Venue, Committee
Vultures (Circling overhead) - Kettle
Walruses - Herd, Pod
Warthogs - Sounder
Wasps - Nest, Swarm
Waterfowl - Knob, Plump
Wild Dogs - Pack
Wild Dogs Pups - Litter
Whales - Pod, Gam, Herd, School, Mod
Wildebeast - Confusion
Wildfowl - Plump
Zebras - Zeal, Crossing, Dazzle, Cohorts, Herd

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