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Thank you to everyone who sent in an entry for the African Animal Postcard competition, published in our Wild Africa: A Continent in Motion issue. You sent us postcards from every corner of Wild Africa – Ethiopian wolves hunting mole rats through mountain mist, flamingo chicks marching across soda lakes, and lionesses celebrating a fresh kill on the Serengeti. Thank you to everyone who imagined themselves into the wild.
Painted Lady Butterfl
The sky is a shimmering of orange, black and white from all the wings in front of me. I can feel the wind as everyone flies off and hear the hum of their wings. I know I won't make it to the end of my journey but my children and grandchildren will. They will see animals and trees and other things I will never see. I cannot wait to taste all the different nectar on my journey and a juicy, over-ripe orange, banana or apple would be amazing as well.
African Wild Dog
Swallow
Ethiopian wolf
Look around with me. What do you feel?
Not that way. Beyond the high-altitude plateaus where I live and the rodents I hunt, you can hear a whisper on the wind. This is the Simien Mountains. This is Africa.
My pack, my family, can feel it too. When we head off alone to hunt the rodents we feed on, we can hear the highlands calling to us through the morning fog. Such is the urge of Africa.
Beneath the surface lies life, and warmth, and spirit. So go on: Can you feel it?
There's so much more here. You just need to dare to look for it.
Breeze,
The Ethiopian Wolf
The lioness
Barn swallow
Flamingo
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You've been designing brilliant new contenders for the Astonishing Amazon Animal Showdown – piranhas with jaws that regrow in whole quarters, a hoatzin that ferments its dinner in a throat pouch, a tailless whip scorpion that senses danger through its legs, and a jaguar with one of the most powerful bites of any mammal. Thank you to every reader who did the research and made the case for their champion.
This competition asked you to design a secret egg hidden somewhere in nature, and your entries went far beyond the obvious nests and burrows. Eggs arrived disguised as pine cones, floating on leaf boats, perched on volcano ledges, tucked into cloud cover and even masquerading as chocolate Easter eggs to fool foxes. Thank you to every reader who took up the challenge and thought like a parent bird, fish, reptile or imaginary creature trying to keep their precious egg safe.
