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PRETEND YOU’RE ON A GAME COUNT

Impala!” “ I’d never seen anyone as excited as my Dutch friend Caroline when she saw the first of a herd of these ubiquitous antelope wandering out of the bush in the afternoon.

It had been a quiet few hours in north-west Hwange, so the first animal to come into view was a cause for celebration.

The Game Count is the perfect antidote to the ‘Ferrari Safari’: take a break from speeding around the bush looking for animals, sit back and wait for them to come to you.

The idea is to count and sex everything you see, and work out how old it is, over a 24-hour period, from midday to

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