Tag: mammals
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Holiday Season in the Austrian Alps & Central Europe (2025-2026)
My family’s first-ever snow-themed winter holiday took the entire Gardner clan through Central Europe—17 days of freezing temperatures, superb skiing, gorgeous Austrian Alps, and charming historic cities. Experiencing real snow for the first time in 6 years was exhilarating! I particularly enjoyed the snow-covered Alps—easily one of the most spectacular places I’ve visited in my…
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Exploring Australia’s Gondwana Rainforest (2025)
I will soon be attending the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia to study zoology. It’s crazy to think that in less than a month—February 2025—I’ll be starting down the path toward my dream major and career in a country I’ve never lived in before. Over the 2024–2025 winter holidays (December 25, 2024–January 9, 2025),…
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Seeking Out One of the World’s Rarest Monkeys (And Other Animals) In Thomson Nature Park
Singapore is a big city. Not necessarily big in its physical size; virtually the whole city-state lies on a small, mostly flat, diamond-shaped island situated directly below the southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia. But big in its population, culture, and economy. In just one generation since its independence, the nation was, due to the hard…
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Searching for Fruit Bats in Downtown Hong Kong!
Yes, you read the title right: there’s a healthy population of Short-Nosed Fruit Bats in Victoria Park, Causeway Bay! I first discovered these cool critters about four years ago, when I was really into mammal watching. They’re quite comfortable roosting in close proximity to people during the day, and at night they pan out from…
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My Epic South African Safari! (2019)
It was a dusty, dry July afternoon in 2019 that I set out amongst the spectacular landscape of the Sabi Sands Game Reserve with my family on a three-day safari. It is world-famous for its fearless and iconic African wildlife, and especially its leopards. Very difficult to observe leopard behaviour can be seen here easily,…
Bennett Gardner Wildlife Watching 