Justin Fox Bags the Elusive Pangolin
Justin Fox, author of The Marginal Safari, has spent the past three months traversing South African terrain in a search for what he has dubbed the country’s “Impossible Five” – the Cape leopard, the Riverine rabbit, the White lion, the Aardvark, and the Pangolin. In an article on Getaway blog, Fox describes finding the most elusive of the pack, the Pangolin:
Over the past three months I’ve been searching for the Impossible Five, the five most elusive animals in South Africa. In the end I managed to find three and a half out of five (it’s a long story, for another time). Perhaps the hardest creature to nail was the pangolin. Here’s how we got him …
There is an enormous hunting ranch near Upington called Kalahari Oryx where a young scientist is researching pangolins. A barefoot Darren Pietersen met me in the driveway. I was to spend the coming days with his family at their home (Darren’s father is manager of the ranch).
Book details
- The Marginal Safari: Scouting the edge of South Africa by Justin Fox
EAN: 9781415200582
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Photo courtesy Getaway blog
