Photo Gallery of Okavango Baboons – Page 11
Photos of Other Wildlife
Crocodiles
I took this photo from my hut of a large crocodile on the opposite bank of the Boro River. It was the largest crocodile I had seen near Baboon Camp in nearly three years and put a damper on our occasional trips to the nearby swimming hole. 
This fellow was on a sandbar along the Boro River about a mile south of our camp.
The croc was not too happy as we positioned the boat for a closer look.
Snakes
A black mamba crawls up a knobthorn tree (Acacia nigrescens) above my hut. Camp Troop baboons often slept in this stand of trees at night. In the upper right is a Cape starling, whose alarm calls alerted me to the snake.
The Cape starling harrasses (“mobs”) the snake. Most likely, this was the same black mamba that had recently crawled in bed with me.
One night, I woke to the sound of my flashlight falling from beside my pillow. As I reached for the flashlight, I hesitated — maybe it hadn’t fallen on its own. After getting up and lighting a match, I saw a 6–7 foot mamba draped over the corner of the bed. My mistake for not using the mosquito net on a cool night. (I never slept in that hut again. Nor did I sleep without a mosquito net.)
A startled adolescent male baboon leaps away from a python lying in the grass (sorry I didn’t get the python in the photo).
Our cat Hodi brought us this mangled green snake as a gift.
Spiders
Ventral view of a garden orb spider (Argiope australis). Some spider species built webs between reeds above the floodwaters. A ride through the reeds in a dugout canoe (“makoro”) guaranteed picking up a few extra passengers.
Rear view of a garden orb spider (Argiope australis).
Leopard Tortoise
Stigmochelys pardalis.
I encountered rare and elusive Cape pangolins three times, each time when seeing the faint rustling of grass along tire tracks as I drove past.
Pangolins are sometimes referred to as “scaly anteaters.”
A Cape pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) adopts a defensive posture .
This African civet (Civettictis civetta) ran in front of us while we we driving to the top of Chief’s Island. This was my only sighting of a civet.
While driving the boat to Xaxaba Camp, we passed this African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) along the bank of the Boro River. Fish eagles were common in the Okavango, and their loud calls were ubiquitous (sometimes referred to as the voice of Africa). They belong to the same genus as the North American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).
A group of wattled cranes (Grus carunculata) out for a stroll. We sometimes saw crowned cranes and saddle-billed storks, but I failed to get any photos.
Note the red lechwe antelope partially hidden in the sedges to the left of this wattled crane.
Maribou storks (Leptoptilos crumenifer).
Maribou stork taking flight.