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		<title>In Memoriam: Conservationist Anna Merz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Lewa Conservancy and the global fight against the slaughter of black rhinos lost its dearest friend on April 4 when Anna Merz passed away in a South Africa hospital. She was 81. As reported in...<br/>
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		<title>Interview with a Mountain Gorilla</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[In July, a poacher&#8217;s snare killed a young gorilla in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda—one of only 700 mountain gorillas left in the world. This was a tragedy for their family group, but the...<br/>
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		<title>Our Favourite Sundowners: A Slide Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Swahili word for sunset is magharibi. In Afrikaans, the sun dips behind the hills and the plains turn fiery red and gold at sonsondergang. And in Zulu, the magical time when we have our end of...<br/>
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		<title>World’s Best Safari Outfitter…Nine Times and Counting!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.micato.com/blog/2012/07/12/worlds-best-safari-outfitternine-times-and-counting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micato</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The results are in! For a record ninth time, the readers of Travel + Leisure have named Micato Safaris the #1 World’s Best Safari Outfitter. For the past eight years, our winning title has been...<br/>
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		<title>The Elusive Leopard Tells All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Elusive. That’s me. Solitary, secretive, nocturnal… notorious for my stealth: the life of a leopard is much like that of a reluctant member of the royal family. So why am I writing a blog post for...<br/>
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		<title>Girl Enters Kenya Tree House As a Princess, Leaves as a Queen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micato</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[On a starry February evening in 1952, Princess Elizabeth ascended into the leafy heights of a 300-year-old ficus tree in Aberdare State Park to attend a state dinner at the Treetops Hotel. The...<br/>
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		<title>Secrets of the Rhinoceros</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 22:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, I heard that my fellow “five” were blogging for Micato. The lion, the elephant, and the Cape buffalo all had plenty to say—but like many rhinos, I seldom speak unless spoken to. However, the...<br/>
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		<title>A Few Minutes with a Cape Buffalo</title>
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		<comments>http://www.micato.com/blog/2012/05/24/a-few-minutes-with-a-cape-buffalo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[People get all excited about the lion, Mr. King of the Jungle, and are SO impressed by the elephant, the world’s largest land mammal. But what about me? The Cape Buffalo? Hello? I’m one of the Big...<br/>
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		<title>Confessions of a Mama Elephant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Good morning everyone! Yes, I am a mama elephant. I asked the Micato Safaris writers to transcribe a blog post for me, as my flat feet are terrible for typing. After all, why should those vain lions...<br/>
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		<title>A Taste of Namibia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micato</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Africa is home to the largest land animal in the world (the elephant), the longest river in the word (the Nile), the oldest human fossils (Ardi, a 4.4 million year old skeleton found in Ethiopia),...<br/>
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